lineal
IPA: ɫˈɪniʌɫ
adjective
- Having an ancestral relationship to mothers, fathers, grandparents, (etc.) and having a descendant relationship to sons, daughters, grandchildren (etc.), exclusive of collateral siblings.
- Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
- Composed of lines; delineated.
- In the direction of a line; of a line; of or relating to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear.
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Examples of "lineal" in Sentences
- It became the term people used to name their lineal affiliation with their father's maternal line.
- It has rarely happened that a crown has been transmitted from father to son, in lineal descent, for seventeen reigns.
- Yet after the fortune of his posterity, Seljuk became the thirty-fourth in lineal descent from the great Afrasiab, emperor of
- Theodoric the Ostrogoth, the fourteenth in lineal descent of the royal line of the Amali, 1 was born in the neighborhood of Vienna 2 two years after the death of Attila.
- Its parents may think themselves hardly treated when they are called lineal successors of Tony Fire-the-faggot: {263} but, degenerate though they be, such is their ancestry.
- 99 Two hundred families † supply, in lineal descent, the second branch of English legislature, which maintains, between the king and commons, the balance of the constitution.
- After the death of the younger Romanus, the fourth in lineal descent of the Basilian race, his widow Theophania successively married Nicephorus Phocas and his assassin John Zimisces, the two heroes of the age.
- "Imagine an art made up entirely of these quintessences of movement-values and you will have something that holds the same relation to representation that music holds to speech -- and this art exists and is called lineal decoration.
- I am aware that the severity indicated by the numbers and fractions on the Richter scale are not lineal, but it has been many years since I saw the definitions of that scale, and I did not feel like doing the research again for my last post.
- (The National Guard, which was conceived and established as a kind of lineal descendant of the colonial era militias, has been shipped off to fight in Iraq, leaving the country largely undefended, whether against natural disaster or foreign attack.)
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