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.