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  1. Pertaining to or constituting a progenitor.

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  • “Still the promptness to laugh is an excellent progenitorial foundation for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is witness to the spouting of laughter.”

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1

  • “Families against whom neither Thompson lawyer nor Bairam physician could recollect a progenitorial blot, either on the male or female side, were not numerous.”

    Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2

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‘progenitorial’ has been looked up 76 times, and has a Scrabble score of 16.