Word Meanings - LINEALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror.

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• PRINCELESS
  Without a prince. Fuller.
• PRINCEDOM
  The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton.
• CONQUEROR
  One who conquers. The Conqueror . William the Norman who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066.
• DESCENDING
  Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing
• DESCENDENT
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
• PRINCELY
  1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.
• PRINCEHOOD
  Princeliness. E. Hall.
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• PRINCESSE
  A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• DESCEND
  To move toward the south, or to the southward. (more info) 1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite
• PRINCE
  1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. Wyclif . Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. Milton. Queen Elizabeth,
• PRINCELET
  A petty prince.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• PRINCEWOOD
  The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.
• PRINCESS
  1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift. 2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. Shak. 3. The consort of a prince; as, the
• DESCENDIBLE
  1. Admitting descent; capable of being descended. 2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. "A descendant estate." Sir W. Jones.
• 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;
• PRINCELIKE
  Princely. Shak.
• LINEALLY
  In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror.
• 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.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CENTROLINEAL
  Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.
• CONDESCEND
  1. To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.