progenitorialadj.
/ˌprəʊdʒɛnᵻˈtɔːrɪəl/, /prə(ʊ)ˌdʒɛnᵻˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /prəˌdʒɛnəˈtɔriəl/, /proʊˌdʒɛnəˈtɔriəl/ Of, relating to, or characteristic of a progenitor; of the nature of a progenitor; parental; ancestral.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [adjective]
fatherlyOE
fatherenOE
ancestral1579
ancestriala1641
ancestory1650
ancestrian1756
ancestorial1777
progenitorial1825
forefatherly1855
1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 289 It presents us neither with progenitorial guilt, to be visited upon the heroes, nor with predicted calamities to be inflicted.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. ii. 19 Families against whom neither..lawyer, nor..physician, could recollect a progenitorial blot..were not numerous.
1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates xviii. 196 In the Werdenstein plate there are no less than sixteen of these ‘progenitorial’ shields.
1929 Classical Q. 23 191 Philip dreamed that in his progenitorial capacity he took steps to ensure the leonine character of his child.
1964 Western Kansas Press (Great Bend, Kansas) 14 Apr. 4/1 The same progenitorial relationship can be recognized between the common cold as we knew it in the long ago and the modern cold.
1991 Science (Nexis) 15 Mar. 1374 Seaborg, who has played a key progenitorial role in the forging of most of the new [transuranium] elements.
1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 141/2 In ‘Torn Curtain’ we see a progenitorial Hitchcock sitting in an armchair..reacting when the infant..creates chaos in his lap.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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