a. [f. prec., after words like mediator·ial, f. L. adjs. in -ōri-us: see -ORIAL.] = ANCESTRAL.
1659. Harl. Misc. (1810), VI. 88. Neither the foundation-men nor ancestorial gentry being educated so as to be serviceable to the publick.
1827. Pollok, Course of Time, IV. (1860), 105. Not content with ancestorial name Or to be known because his fathers were.
1846. Grote, Greece (1862), I. xiv. 216. Thebes in Egypt, his ancestorial seat.
