Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lineal manner; in a direct line: as, one who is lineally descended from the Conqueror.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a lineal manner.

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  • adverb genealogy By direct descent.

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  • adverb by an unbroken line of descent

Etymologies

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lineal +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • People, we need to be thinking dimensionally, not lineally.

    What does bottom up mind have to do with you personally? 2009

  • I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr. T.

    Anthony Trollope | clusterflock 2008

  • And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book-licensing ripped up and drawn as lineally as any pedigree.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book-licensing ripped up and drawn as lineally as any pedigree.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • A Hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor, and includes their wives and unmarried daughters.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • Say you were lineally descended from King Pepin, or he himself, what of this?

    The Duchess of Malfi 2007

  • A Hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor, and includes their wives and unmarried daughters.

    You Thought U.S. Tax Laws Were Complicated... 2005

  • Pompili, lineally descended from the second king of Rome, and

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • They welcomed her with a painfully lavish exhibition of large new gloves, and chests covered with broad triangular areas of padded blue silk, occupying the position that the shirt-front had occupied in earlier days, and supposed to be lineally descended from the tie of a neckerchief.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • Though he is weel born, and lineally descended frae auld

    Rob Roy 2005

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