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[ adjective ] inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
Synonyms Examples "ancestral home" "ancestral lore" "hereditary monarchy" "patrimonial estate" "transmissible tradition" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)To the ancestral lore , however , new materials were added . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy 's eye again the great fieldstone house which , built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor , had been Izaak 's bride-gift to his cousin wife as the last century ended . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes , the startled horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are_born at the end of an ancestral line long_since divorced from money-making and which , besides , has kept its estate intact . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
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