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Definition of Ancestral
1. Adjective. Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent. "Transmissible tradition"
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Similar to: Heritable, Inheritable
Derivative terms: Ancestor, Patrimony
2. Adjective. Of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor.
Definition of Ancestral
1. a. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
Definition of Ancestral
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ancestral
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Ancestral
1. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ancestral
Literary usage of Ancestral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"It is not intended to go into the general question of equitable conversion, but
only to discuss the cases relating to ancestral estates; nor is it intended ..."
2. Littleton's Tenures in English by Thomas Littleton, Eugene Wambaugh (1903)
"Tenant by homage ancestral is, where a tenant holdeth his land of his lord by
homage, ... And this is called homage ancestral, by reason of the continuance, ..."
3. Organic Evolution: A Text Book by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... ancestral to the Orthoptera, the grasshoppers, crickets and the related
phasmids, earwigs and the like. Another of these transitional groups was the ..."
4. Faith and Thought: Journal of the Victoria Institute by Victoria Institute (Great Britain). (1904)
"OUR subject to-day is ancestral Worship, which has been well called the religion
of the Chinese, for in the worship of ancestors the whole nation agrees, ..."
5. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"C. ACQUIRED CHARACTERS RESEMBLING ancestral ONES Sometimes the drunken ...
This is not reversion, but reacquisition resembling the ancestral condition. ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on Abstracts and Examinations of Title to Real Property by George William Warvelle (1921)
"ancestral Estates—Half Blood. A marked provision may be observed in the statutes
of descent of many States in relation to ancestral estates and the ..."
7. A Treatise on the American Law of Administration by John Gabriel Woerner (1899)
"7 See post, § 73, as to the devolution of ancestral estates. " Rev. St. 1887, §
1461. • Rey. St. 1895, art. 1690. An exception is made in this State, ..."
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