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lineally
adverb as in straight
Example Sentences
If Thou hast caused me to descend lineally from the natural princes of Cambria, I command these birds, in Thy name, to declare it.”
This universal product of the race is indeed the chief evidence that we are lineally connected with the brutes that perish; for there is no doubt that the Smoutchy Boy is a brute among brutes.
They are not a freak variation but a species lineally related to those which precede and follow.
The pursuer asserted that he was lineally descended from an Earl of Sutherland living in 1275, while his opponents' ancestors were not Earls till about 1399.
"The tents of Shem" may be interpreted to mean the homes of the people of God, lineally descended from Shem, through Abraham.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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