Lineal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LINEAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• being directly descended from ancestor
• in a direct line of descent or ancestry
• relating to or consisting of lines; linear.
• in direct line of descent
• Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
• Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
• Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.
• In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.
• in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
• arranged in a line
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• being directly descended from an ancestor

Words related to LINEAL

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Words that contain LINEAL

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How to use LINEAL in a sentence

• Homer, Dante, Milton, and Shakespeare are the lineal descendants of the man who made holes in a leaf, or lines on a wave-washed sand.
• Children love to measure, whether by lineal or liquid measure, or by learning to tell the time or to use a pair of scales.
• The Teuton of to-day is the lineal descendant of the old worshipper of Thor.
• Again, our wooden bridges of the average span cost about thirty-five dollars per lineal foot.
• It includes simply the priest Jeshua, or Joshua, the lineal heir of the early Jerusalem priestly line of Zadok, and Zerubbabel, a descendant of the Judean royal family.
• Frederic, the emperor, Duke of Styria, was now the oldest lineal descendant of Rhodolph of Hapsburg, founder of the house of Austria.
• SHAW salutes him as the greatest English composer, the true lineal descendant of BEETHOVEN, one of the Immortals and the only candidate for Westminster Abbey! To find Mr.
• Having driven out the former inhabitants of that part of the island called England, they became aborigines as to you, and your lineal ancestors.
• It does not follow that, because one system follows another in chronological order, it is its lineal descendant.
• It is no part of my project or my hope to establish the actual date of any among the various plays, or to determine point by point the lineal order of their succession.
• In this document he declared himself to be the lineal descendant and nearest lawful heir of Sir William Alexander, who he said was his great-great-great-grandfather.
• The Jewish dogmas, therefore, descended to them as a natural lineal inheritance.
• This must be our excuse for a word or two concerning the race from which came his twenty-fifth lineal ancestor.
• This result pointed to a lineal connection between them, and led Boltwood to undertake a direct attack on the problem.
• It is thought that the conception of man being a lineal descendant of the monkey is a conception which is degrading to the dignity of the former animal.
• His virtues were such as to gain him the respect and esteem of all the Peruvian Indians, who venerated him also as the lineal descendant of their ancient emperors.
• A lineal descendant of the first governor of Plymouth Colony, she was happily born and bred.
• Masonry the lineal descendant of the higher science of Egypt, 253-l.
• It is occupied by a lineal descendant of Salim Chishti, and is only rarely shown to visitors.
• But the family clung fast to their belief that they were the lineal descendants of the Turralds of Buckinghamshire.
• But we cannot expect a lineal series of such kings.
• Of their country these lineal successors Of NELSON deserved very well, When at last they became the possessors Of an old fully-licensed hotel.
• It was made by the gods, whose lineal descendant is the Emperor.
• The government of the United States today is in lineal descent more nearly related to that of Connecticut than to that of any of the other thirteen colonies.
• Gardiner is a lineal descendant of Cromwell and Ireton.
• In that it is the direct lineal descendant and heir of the Hebrew nation.
• The lineal representatives of the Saxon Guelfs are found to-day in the House of Brunswick.
• No lineal descendants can claim as an ancestor this extraordinary man.
• Some said he was a lineal descendant of the traitor.
• Their lineal descendants are no strangers on the exchanges, or in the churches of London or New York.
• The grammar-school pronunciation of the early nineteenth century was the lineal descendant of the grammar-school pronunciation of the fourteenth century.

Similar words containing LINE without suffix al

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