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lineally, adv.|ˈlɪnɪəlɪ|
(Forms as in lineal.)
[f. lineal a. + -ly2.]
1. In the direct line of descent; by lineal descent.
1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 1121 Folwyng doun of a kynrede Lynealy, fro gre to gre. 1466Edw. IV in Paston Lett. II. 282 Gentlemen descended lineally of worshipfull blood. 1534More On the Passion Wks. 1293/2 Moyses gaue theym warning of Christ, that he should be a verye man, comming liniallye of one of theyr owne tribes. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ix. 38 From whose race of old She heard that she was lineally extract. 1631Heywood Lond. Jus Hon. Wks. 1874 IV. 277 Shee was lineally descended from the Roman Emperours. 1779F. Hervey Nav. Hist. II. iii. 138 From Sir Thomas Monson..are lineally descended the two noble families of Monson and Sondes. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) iii. 421 None but those who are lineally descended from him can derive a title to it by descent.
transf.a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. ix. §3 (1622) 296 All those so largely extended lines,..doe lineally descend from one onely prick.
2. In a line; in a direct line. Now rare.
1536in Laing Charters (1899) 108 Fra the Blakwell and craig lynallie north. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 6/2 Commonlye, shotten woundes doe not enter right, or liniallye into the bodye, but turninge. 1607in Stonehouse Axholme (1839) 404 The Lord may at his pleasure drive, as is accustomed, from Dirkness Crook lineally to Callendike. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 127 The shade of the earth falling from y⊇ suns place lineally upon the moone. 1827Chron. in Ann. Reg. 169/2 Ten feet lineally from east to west. 1854Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. i. 43 The sources of the Nene are two springs..about 70 miles lineally distant from its mouth.
3. In various occasional uses:
†a. By means of lines; graphically.
b. With regard to the lines or outline of anything.
c. Line for line.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 264 Amazed at the admirable frame of giants which were lineally deciphered therein. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 52 The Essentialls..must..be..lineally sanctioned by Supreme Councels. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty ix. 50 We may..lineally account for the ugliness of the toad, the hog, the bear and the spider, which are totally void of this waving-line. Ibid. xvii. 238 If stage-action..was to be studied lineally, it might [etc.]. 1879Sala in Daily Tel. 26 June, The old structure [Blackfriars bridge] designed by Mylne..was not, lineally, unhandsome. 1887Bowen Virg. Pref. (1889) 7 Virgil ought to be translated more or less lineally, as well as literally. |