Word Meanings - LINEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant. The prime and ancient right of lineal succession. Locke. 2. Inheriting by direct descent;

Additional info about word: LINEAL

1. Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant. The prime and ancient right of lineal succession. Locke. 2. Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed . For only you are lineal to the throne. Dryden. 3. Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs. 4. In the direction of a line; of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude. Lineal measure, the measure of length; -- usually written linear measure.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LINEAL)

• Hereditary
• Inherited
• ancestral
• lineal

Related words: (words related to LINEAL)

• INHERITABILITY
  The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
• INHERITOR
  One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
• INHERITRIX
  See SHAK
• INHERITABLY
  By inheritance. Sherwood.
• HEREDITARY
  1. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown. 2. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a
• INHERITRESS
  A heiress. Milman.
• INHERITABLE
  Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of
• INHERIT
  To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir
• LINEAL
  1. Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant. The prime and ancient right of lineal succession. Locke. 2. Inheriting by direct descent;
• INHERITANCE
  Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. (more info) 1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. 2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived
• LINEALLY
  In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror.
• ANCESTRAL
  Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.
• LINEALITY
  The quality of being linea
• RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
  Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.
• DISINHERITANCE
  The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
• DISINHERIT
  1. To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion
• CENTROLINEAL
  Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.
• COINHERITOR
  A coheir.
• COINHERITANCE
  Joint inheritance.
• CURVILINEAL; CURVILINEAR
  Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.
• MULTILINEAL
  Having many lines. Steevens.
• INTERLINEAL; INTERLINEAR
  Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. -- In`ter*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.