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adjective

Lineal adj.

Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant. "The prime and ancient right of lineal succession."

Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to). "For only you are lineal to the throne."

Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.

In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.

Lineal measure, the measure of length; usually written linear measure.

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Etymology of 'Lineal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lineal" Quotes from Famous Books

... patterns. Yellow and red ochre mixed with grease are coarsely smeared over the bodies, grey in coarse patterns and white in fine patterns resembling tattoo marks. Tattooing is of two distinct varieties. In the south the body is slightly cut by women with small flakes of glass or quartz in zigzag or lineal patterns downwards. In the north it is deeply cut by men with pig-arrows in lines across the body. The male matures when about fifteen years of age, marries when about twenty-six, begins to age when about forty, and lives onto sixty ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... of the facts of geology, it follows that all living animals and plants "are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch." [Footnote: Origin of ...

— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

... to prove that it is a remnant of an ancient snake worship, still it is natural to presume that such is really the case. There are several tales relating to the manner in which men were turned into rattlesnakes, and how the noise of the rattlesnakes has its lineal descendant in the rattles of the dancers. The Indians told me of several songs used for snake dances, but in those which were sung I think I detected the same music, and am confident that the words as given occur in most of them. The discord at the end of the first line is ...

— Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore • J. Walter Fewkes

... Spanish Wars. These are his eligibilities, recommending him at Berlin, and to Official men at home. Family is old enough: Hothams of Scarborough in the East Riding; old as WILHELMUS BASTARDUS; and subsists to our own day. This Sir Charles is lineal Son of the Hothams who lost their heads in the Civil War; and he is, so to speak, lineal UNCLE of the Lords Hotham that now are. For the rest, a handsome figure, prompt in French, and much the gentleman. So ...

— History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 • Thomas Carlyle

... generally about the end of the seventeenth century, though it occurs many years before that time. There have been numerous ways of pronouncing the name, as 'Peps,' 'Peeps,' and 'Peppis.' The Diarist undoubtedly pronounced it 'Peeps,' and the lineal descendants of his sister Paulina, the family of 'Pepys Cockerell' pronounce it so to this day. The other branches of the family all pronounce it as 'Peppis,' and I am led to be satisfied that the latter pronunciation ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

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