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progenitorial, a.|prəʊdʒɛnɪˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. L. type *prōgenitōri-us (f. prōgenitō r-em: see prec.) + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to progenitors; of the nature of a progenitor; ancestral.
1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 289 It presents us neither with progenitorial guilt, to be visited upon the heroes, nor with predicted calamities to be inflicted. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xviii, Families against whom neither..lawyer nor..physician could recollect a progenitorial blot, either on the male or female side, were not numerous. 1880Warren Book-plates xviii. 196 In the Werdenstein plate there are no less than sixteen of these ‘progenitorial’ shields. |