Difference between Ancestor and Forebear

ANCESTOR vs FOREBEAR: NOUN

A person from whom one is descended, especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear.
A forerunner or predecessor.
The person from whom an estate has been inherited.
The actual or hypothetical organism or stock from which later kinds evolved.
One from whom a person is descended in the line of either father or mother; a forefather; a progenitor.
In law, one, whether a progenitor or a collateral relative, who has preceded another in the course of inheritance; one from whom an inheritance is derived: the correlative of heir: sometimes used specifically of the immediate progenitor.
In biology, according to the theory of evolution, the hypothetical form or stock, of an earlier and presumably lower type, from which any organized being is inferred to have been directly or indirectly developed.
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.
One who had the same role or function in former times.
An earlier type; a progenitor.

Patrimonial, Precursor, Ascendancy, Predecessor, Tso, Forerunner, Kin, Progenitor, Grandfather, Forebear, Ancestral, Ascendent, Ancestry, Ascendant, Antecedent

Descendant, Bottom up, Ceremony, Patrimonial, Ascendancy, Predecessor, Forerunner, Kin, Progenitor, Grandfather, Ancestral, Ascendent, Ancestry, Ascendant, Antecedent

Abraham the ancestor of the Hebrew people is the ancestor that the Israelites that became the Igbo took his title as their collective name.
Parentelic anybody who is a close ancestor will take in preference to somebody who is a more remote ancestor.
Clearly a parent is an ancestor of a child, and any ancestor of a parent is also an ancestor of the child.
The applicant for Veteran, Defender and Citizen ancestor medallions must provide documentation bysubmitting the proof of service for the ancestor as outlined below.
Duke Raus was an ancestor worshipper, and as head of the family also the chief priest of the ancestor cult.
In the case of English and French, this ancestor language is usually Latin, but other pairs of languages have different ancestor languages.
Paraphyletic groups contain a common ancestor, but not all its descendents; and polyphyletic groups have no common ancestor within the group.
If your ancestor had a United States passport, your ancestor completed the naturalization process and was a US Citizen.
Sequeira emphasizes the fact dealing with the Israelites having a common ancestor, Abraham, going back to the first ancestor, Adam.
How do you determine if an ancestor is a gateway ancestor?

The British soldier entered World War I with vastly improved equipment over his Boer War forebear.
That passage may indeed be seen as the oldest political and spiriitual forebear of the Declaration.
A similar annulment had been granted to Henry VIII's forebear, Henry II of England.
The two-door Paceman doesn't look as upright as its more practical forebear.
Does this new Hyundai Santa Fe build on the recipe for success of its forebear?
Majesty for every month which he or she shall so forebear twenty pounds, etc.
Here, both Plaintiffs and Defendant mutually agreed to forebear from taking certain action.
Jackson has long been the emotional, physical and musical forebear to Brown.
Negro forebear could be substantially darkerin appearance than either parent.
Forebear to judge, for we are sinners all.