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genealogical, a.|ˌdʒɛniːəˈlɒdʒɪkəl, dʒiː-|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
That belongs to genealogy, or that traces family descent. genealogical tree: a table exhibiting the relation of ancestors to descendants under the form of a tree with spreading branches; also, a table showing the descent of animal species from a supposed common origin.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. vi. x. I. 141 Which genealogicall recapitulation in their nationall families and tribes, other people also haue observed. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 585 Hee begat the sonne who is enranked in this genealogicall rolle. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T., Luke iii. 23–38 The Genealogical Controversies I pass by. 1815Scott Guy M. ii, His genealogical tree..bore heathen fruit of yet darker ages. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 70, I shall begin to trace backward the branches of my own genealogical tree. 1846Grote Greece i. xviii. II. 9 It bears every mark of being the primitive view originally presented by the genealogical poets. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 212 There is a kind of genealogical necessity in the character..Hamlet seems the natural result of the mixture of father and mother in his temperament.
Hence ˌgeneaˈlogically adv.
1656J. Harrington Oceana (1658) 146 Solon having found the Athenians neither Locally nor Genealogically, but by their different wayes of life divided into four Tribes..instituted a new distribution of them. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. x. iii. II. 615 After whom a second Brother, father of the now Serene Strelitzes;—who also is genealogically notable. 1865Max Müller Chips (1880) I. i. 21 Languages are now classified genealogically, i.e. according to their real relationship. |