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单词 female line
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female line
a. A continuous series of persons (rarely of things) in chronological succession. Chiefly with reference to family descent, a series in which each member is the parent of the one next following. So male line, line female, female line, direct line. For heir of line see heir n. Compounds 1.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent
linec1386
descent?a1400
pedigree1440
series1599
Welsh pedigree1615
bloodline1658
family linea1694
stem-line1892
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 279 If gentillesse were planted natureelly vn-to a certeyn linage, doun the lyne.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 14696 ‘Flatrye’..by dyssent off lyne doun Eldest douhter off Falsnesse.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 48 In þe lyne vpward, þi fadyr is to þe in þe first degre of kynrede.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 34 The rycht lyne of the fyrst Stewart.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iv. l. 1786 He sulde be kynge of al þe haile, Þat cummyn war be lyne famale.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.vi A Marshall muste take hede of the byrthe and nexte of the lyne of the blode royall.
1641 Ld. Digby Speeches High Court Parl. 14 By a Concentring of all the Royall lynes in his Person.
a1700 R. Hog Decisions Court of Session, 1681 to 1691 (1757) 101 Alledged for the heir of the line female: That she had right by the contract 1634.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 13 There is no House in Europe that can show a longer Line of Heroes.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 457 Isaac, Jacob, Judah..and..Solomon, were preferred without any regard to the next in line.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 211 In the line Of his descending progeny.
1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 394 Purchases in the line of the mother or grandmother.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 136 The property..derived from a long line of ancestors.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xiii. 297 He and his sons, founded a long line of Priests.
1895 Law Times Rep. 72 817/1 The case is governed by a line of authorities extending over a century.
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