Lineally

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In terms of lines; linewise. not-comparable

    "For copying drawings to a scale differing from the original; e.g., to reduce a drawing, lineally, one fifth: […]"

  2. 2
    By direct descent. not-comparable

    "[…] I confess it was not without some pleasure that I found my self able to trace the particular Features, by which certain Families are distinguished, up to their Originals. I could plainly discover from whence one Family derives a long Chin […]. Who first brought the Pox into a noble House, which hath lineally descended in scrophulous Tumours to their Posterity."

Adverb
  1. 1
    by an unbroken line of descent wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
linewise

Example

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"For copying drawings to a scale differing from the original; e.g., to reduce a drawing, lineally, one fifth: […]"

Etymology

From lineal + -ly.

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