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unlineal

  • 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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Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

Varieties are the latest offshoots of the genealogical tree in "an unlineal" order; species, those of an earlier date, but of no definite distinction; genera, more ancient species, and so on.

From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray

What proof that some unlineal hand, some barbarism, without or within, shall not wrench the sceptre of democracy from our grasp?

From Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Calvin Coolidge

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren scepter in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.

From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd by an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott