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 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb by an unbroken line of descent
Etymologies
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Examples
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People, we need to be thinking dimensionally, not lineally.
What does bottom up mind have to do with you personally? 2009
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I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr. T.
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And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book-licensing ripped up and drawn as lineally as any pedigree.
Areopagitica 2007
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And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book-licensing ripped up and drawn as lineally as any pedigree.
Areopagitica 2007
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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
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Say you were lineally descended from King Pepin, or he himself, what of this?
The Duchess of Malfi 2007
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A Hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor, and includes their wives and unmarried daughters.
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Pompili, lineally descended from the second king of Rome, and
Vanity Fair 2006
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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.
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Though he is weel born, and lineally descended frae auld
Rob Roy 2005
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