lineal
adjective
lineally
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a word derived from
lineal.
Example Sentences
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Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.
From Time Magazine Archive
But that immortal spirit which was decked With all the dowries of celestial grace, By sovereign choice from heavenly choirs select And lineally derived from angel's race; Oh, what is now of it become aread?
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Emma Marshall
These facts, if we bear in mind the geological changes in progress, all simply follow from the proposition of allied organic beings having lineally descended from common parent-stocks.
From The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Sir Francis Darwin
“The Congregationalists answer to the Independents of England and are sympathetically, and to a great extent, lineally descendants of the Puritans.”—Voice from America, p.
From Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat
Yet there cannot be a doubt that the French, one of the most refined and distinguished of modern nations, are lineally descended from this primitive race!
From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Arthur James Johnes
