Lineally [adverb]

Definition of Lineally:

immediately, directly

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Sentence/Example of Lineally:

It was from this doughty ancestor of blessed memory that John Walter Seymour lineally descended.

I am called Howard Tracy because I am descended lineally from both those noble families.

This club descended lineally from Wilkess and from Lamberts.

Is not the school descended lineally from that group of lay scholars whom the monks of Westminster taught?

They are not a freak variation but a species lineally related to those which precede and follow.

This wall, extant in 1647, I take to be the new wall, passing lineally to the wall of the church yard of Kirk o Field.

There were two brothers who were lineally descended from that Rupert Lovel who quarreled with his father two hundred years ago.

Mrs. Cromwell, lineally descended from Oliver Cromwell, died at Yarmouth, at an advanced age.

At the bottom thereof is a flatt gravestone of freestone well worked, lineally with the figure of a lady in a Gothique niche.

Hreditas nunquam ascendit—The right of inheritance never lineally ascends.