a. rare. [f. ANCESTRY + -AL 1; cf. industry, industrial.] Of or pertaining to ancestry; = ANCESTRAL.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., 488. Desert … ancestriall, or derived titles from grandsires long agone.
1659. Howell, Lex. Tetragl., Naturall Children … legitimated by prescription and long Tract of Ancestriall Time.
1806. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., IV. 261. If ancestrial persecutions were to be visited on posterity.
