Lineal synonyms and antonyms

lĭn'ē-əl

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longitudinal
Concerned with the development of persons or groups over time:
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on a line
Having to do with a line
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marking
Having to do with a line
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inherited
Obtained via an inheritance
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transmitted
(in combination) That has been transmitted in a specific manner.
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descended
Hereditary
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linear (related)
The definition of linear is consisting of or using lines.
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ancestral (related)
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
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inherent (related)
The definition of inherent is an essential quality that is part of a person or thing.
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direct
In the line of descent; not collateral.
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continue (related)
Of unbroken descent or lineage
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collateral (antonym)
Accompanying or existing in a subordinate, corroborative, or indirect relationship
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male-line (related)
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patrilineal (related)
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  • The principality of Satara was held to have lapsed in 1848 by the death of the raja without lineal heirs, and was annexed by the British government.

  • He also was provost of Edinburgh at various times, and it is a remarkable instance of the esteem in which the lairds of Merchiston were held that three of them in immediate lineal succession repeatedly filled so important an office during perhaps the most memorable period in the history of the city.

  • The Bhonsla raja of Nagpur died without lineal heirs in 1853, and his territory was likewise annexed.

  • They are direct lineal descendants of the cells introduced, and are in no way formed from the tissue cells of the host in which they are placed and grow.

  • A "General Society of Mayflower Descendants" was organized in 1894 by lineal descendants of passengers of the "Mayflower" to "preserve their memory, their records, their history, and all facts relating to them, their ancestors and their posterity."

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