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ancestoral

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ancestoral (not comparable)

  1. (less common) ancestral
    • 1852, Edwin Paxton Hood, Lamps of the Temple: Shadows from the Lights of the Modern Pulpit:
      [] could be seen, — amidst a building so consecrated by recollections of the most hoary and ancestoral — the invulnerable fortress of stone []
    • 2016, Richard L. Scott, An Examination of Conscience of the Understanding:
      [] even one of the ancestoral coital unions would have caused any person's unique ancestoral germ line to have miscarried.

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