Lineage

/ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage..

Definitions by Sense

1. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
2. (press) A number of lines of text in a column.
3. A fee or rate paid per line of text.

Example Sentences

Theſe Anius Ueres [Marcus Annius Verus, father of Marcus Aurelius] was a lygnage, that auanced them to be deſcẽded [descended] of Numa Pompilio, and of Quintꝰ [Quintus] Curtius the famous Romayn: […]

Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide, / Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,

[…]; and therefore they were to me now no more than if they had never been of my Linage; […]

Accept this welcome to the Spartan court; / The waſte of nature let the feaſt repair, / Then your high lineage and your names declare: / Say from what ſcepter'd anceſtry ye claim, / Recorded eminent in deathleſs fame?

To counterbalance those foreign centinels^([sic]), there mounted guard on the other side of the mirror two stout warders of Scottish lineage; […]

“Ah, but these hens,” answered the young man,—“these hens of aristocratic lineage would scorn to understand the vulgar language of a barn-yard fowl. I prefer to think—and so would Miss Hepzibah—that they recognize the family tone. For you are a Pyncheon?”

To produce Tess, fresh from the dairy, as a d’Urberville and a lady, he had felt to be temerarious and risky; hence he had concealed her lineage till such time as, familiarized with worldly ways by a few months’ travel and reading with him, he could take her on a visit to his parents and impart the knowledge while triumphantly producing her as worthy of such an ancient line. It was a pretty lover’s dream, if no more. Perhaps Tess’s lineage had more value for himself than for anybody in the world beside.

They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.

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• lineages
• linage

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