Ancestral

  • 21ancestral — ancestrally, adv. /an ses treuhl/, adj. 1. pertaining to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors: an ancestral home. 2. serving as a forerunner, prototype, or inspiration. [1425 75; late ME aunce(s)trel < MF, equiv. to ancestre ANCESTOR + …

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  • 22ancestral — adjective /ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl,ænˈsɛs.tɹəl/ Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. &LT;! material copied from Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) …

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  • 23ancestral — adj. Ancestral is used with these nouns: ↑home, ↑homeland, ↑house, ↑land, ↑past, ↑shrine, ↑spirit, ↑tradition …

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  • 24ancestral — adjective their ancestral hunting grounds Syn: inherited, hereditary, familial; rare lineal …

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  • 25ancestral — /ænˈsɛstrəl/ (say an sestruhl) adjective relating to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors: *What did his origins and his ancestral culture mean here under these trees on a river bank in the Royal National Park –angelo loukakis, 1981.&#8230; …

  • 26ancestral — ancestor ► NOUN 1) a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended. 2) something from which a later species or version has evolved. DERIVATIVES ancestral adjective ancestrally adverb ancestress noun. ORIGIN&#8230; …

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  • 27ancestral halls/lineage temples — Ancestral halls are often the largest and most elaborate buildings in a Chinese village. With the initiation of economic liberalization in the early 1980s, ancestral halls began reclaiming their prerevolutionary significance as community centres …

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  • 28Ancestral sin — ( el. προπατορική αμαρτία or el. προπατορικό αμάρτημα, more rarely el. προγονική αμαρτία) is the object of a Christian doctrine taught by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Some identify it as inclination towards sin, a heritage from the sin of our&#8230; …

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  • 29Ancestral Knowlton B&B — (Lac Brome,Канада) Категория отеля: 4 звездочный отель Адрес: 402 chemin de Knowlton, J …

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  • 30Ancestral Romance — Album par Dark Moor Genre Power metal Label Scarlet Records Albums de Dark Moor …

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