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ancestral Logic a relation that holds between x and y if there is a chain of instances of a given relation leading from x to y. Thus the ancestral of parent of is ancestor of, since x is the ancestor of y if and only if x is a parent of…a parent of…a parent of y How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| If my reaction is any indication, Beckham-Galaxy Soccer has real
hope for whipping up interest in a sport that America has always
ignored, despite the fact that most people are ancestrally tied to a
country in which soccer is the unofficial second religion. Type IV secretion: intercellular transfer of
macromolecules by systems ancestrally related to conjugation machines. (5) Not so for Brown, who embodies the nation in the figure of
the mulatta, "the representation of two races" standing for a
republic ancestrally linking two racial identities--a symbolism that
will become even more important as Harper makes use of this figure in
Iola Leroy (Brown, The Black Man 81). |
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