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lineally

  • a word derived from lineal.
    lineal
    adjective
    being in the direct line, as a descendant or ancestor, or in a direct line, as descent or succession.

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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

—Is the present Lord Clifford lineally descended from the Lord Clifford who was Lord High Treasurer temp.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Yet I believe the prohibition plank in the platform of the great progressive party, lineally descending, would be the centre of attraction and of repulsion.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

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

In one sense the East Roman Empire was more lineally and really Roman than the West: it was absolutely continuous from ancient times.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various