lineally
- 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
The pirate with his stout sea chest hidden above high-water mark is lineally descended from the enchanting characters who lived in the shadow land of myth and fable.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
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 Johnes, Arthur James
The relationship has never been verified, but one would like to believe it; to find something lineally Dutch in the English writer.
From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur
He was lineally descended from Hugh Hastings, of Elsing, and consequently p. 440from Malcolm, King of Scotland.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
