Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With reference to ancestry; as regards descent.
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- adverb Pertaining to
ancestry .
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Examples
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The sprouts of fashion industry movement in the Caribbean have grown from an ancestrally ingrained and inspired awareness into a well-studied discipline and lifestyle focus.
Chie Davis: Kingston Lingerie and Swimwear Fashion Show Chie Davis 2011
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The sprouts of fashion industry movement in the Caribbean have grown from an ancestrally ingrained and inspired awareness into a well-studied discipline and lifestyle focus.
Chie Davis: Kingston Lingerie and Swimwear Fashion Show Chie Davis 2011
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The sprouts of fashion industry movement in the Caribbean have grown from an ancestrally ingrained and inspired awareness into a well-studied discipline and lifestyle focus.
Chie Davis: Kingston Lingerie and Swimwear Fashion Show Chie Davis 2011
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Darker hair is more common and these people could be ancestrally related to the black Irish, those who descended more from the Picts than the Celts.
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Now, if this were my white, ancestrally Irish child, who also had ADHD, and I appeared speaking in Spanish about his difficulties, would you make the same judgment?
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It is ancestrally a light-sensitive lense but gets covered up pretty quickly by dermal and epidermal tissue.
Life's Time Capsule: The Synapsid Gallery ART Evolved 2009
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Molecular evolutionary biologists have scarcely scratched the surface and barely started to understand this flexible genetic apparatus, although Jacob already put forward a view of the genome as a dynamic body of ancestrally iterated and tinkered pieces more than thirty years ago (Jacob 1977).
Gene Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 2009
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Just start to studying about the ancestrally of my family.
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Tue, 01/26/2010 - 11: 21 — Andresa Nunes (not verified) search for ancestrally
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And I say 'supposedly' because the evidence that YOU really are the direct descendants, ancestrally, of the ancient Israelites is not convincing.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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