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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

... Charming, and such as Voysey. There are two chapters of "Rousseauism," I have not touched yet—Rousseauism in Theology, and Rousseauism in Education. When I write the former I shall try to show that the people of whom I speak as "sentimental deists" are the lineal descendants of the Vicaire Savoyard. I was a great reader of Channing in my boyhood, and was much taken in by his theosophic confectionery. At present I have as much (intellectual) antipathy to him as St. John ...

— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... law governing homicide, on the constitutional rights of American citizens, on the laws of naturalization, marriage, and the domestic relations; waxed eloquent over Italy and the Italian character, mentioned Cavour, Garibaldi and Mazzini in a way to imply that Angelo was their lineal descendant; and quoted from D'Annunzio back to Horace, Cicero ...

— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train

... derived, is a question which cannot be answered with certainty. It is wholly unlike the early Roman tragic iambic. Elision is rare, and there is little variety. Instead of the massive and rugged measure of Pacuvius or Accius, we have a finished and elegant monotony. In all likelihood it is the lineal descendant of the iambic of Ovid.[204] In view of Seneca's great admiration for Ovid—he quotes him continually in his prose works—of Ovid's mastery of rhetoric and epigram, and yet more of the distinct parallels ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... amusing in his ways. He ran about and went to sleep with the pugs, just like one of themselves. Besides, I do not think any one else in England could have boasted of a pig given to them by a South-Sea-Island chief. Probably 'Beau Brummel' was a lineal descendant of the pigs Captain Cook ...

— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey

... Presbyterians, which is the established religion of Massachusetts; and here let me remember with gratitude the hospitable treatment I received from B. Norton, Esq., the colonel of the island, as well as from Dr. Mahew, the lineal descendant of the first proprietor. Here are to be found the most expert pilots, either for the great bay, their sound, Nantucket shoals, or the different ports in their neighbourhood. In stormy weather ...

— Letters from an American Farmer • Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

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