Word Meanings - ANCESTORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ancestral. Grote.

Related words: (words related to ANCESTORIAL)

• GROTESQUENESS
  Quality of being grotesque.
• GROTESQUE
  Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design." Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay.
• ANCESTRAL
  Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.
• GROTESQUELY
  In a grotesque manner.
• GROTESQUERY
  Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates. Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter. George Gissing.
• GROT; GROTE
  A groat. Chaucer.
• AGROTECHNY
  That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.