Dr No -- the lineal descendant of Fu Manchu—is the epitome of evil.
Mrs. Curtis is a lineal descendant of the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots.
The granddaughter, the only lineal descendant of the dead man, was still his wife.
This must be our excuse for a word or two concerning the race from which came his twenty-fifth lineal ancestor.
He must have been a Hebrew and a lineal descendant of Hebrew parents.
Cook (the circumnavigator), and full account of his lineal and collateral descendants.
All the while he fancied himself a lineal descendant of Balzac and Flaubert.
This interesting historic memorial is still preserved by the lineal descendant of the Macdougals of Lorn.
But I've been called it—and by lineal descendants of the Unrepentant Thief, too.
I am not aware that any officer below the lineal rank of colonel has ever been made a brigadier-general by brevet.
late 14c., from Old French lineal (14c.), from Late Latin linealis "pertaining to a line," from linea (see line (n.)). Related: Lineally.
