ancestral (ansestral)

[Early mod. E. also ancestrel, ancestrell, auncestrell, Tenure by homage ancestral was merely tenancy-in chief by immemorial prescription in the family. C. H. Pearson, Early and Middle Ages of Eng., xxxiv. 2. In biol., of or pertaining to an ancestor; being an earlier, and presumably lower or more generalized, type from which later more specialized forms of organized beings are a erted to have been evolved. The common descent of all the Chalk Sponges from a single ancestral form, the Olynthus, can be proved with Haeckel, Evol. of Man (trans.), I. 117. IMG:content-0701.png:[graphic] certainty. Homage ancestral. See homage. ancestrally (an-ses'tral-i), adv. With reference to ancestry; as regards descent. Ancestrally, yellow-rattle is a near relation of the pretty little blue veronicas. G. Allen, Colin Clout's Calendar, p. 96. IMG:content-0702.png:[blocks in formation] from them in having the ulna complete, moderately devel ancestrelt, a. See ancestral . ancestre (an's es-tres), n. [ This ancestre is a lady, or rather the ghost of a lady. Carlyle, Misc. E ., II. 274. ancestrial (an-ses'tri-al), a. Same as ancestral. N. E. D.