lineally

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Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Sir John Thynne, the nephew of Mr. Eymis, who built the magnificent mansion of Longleat, in Wiltshire, the Marquesses of Bath are lineally descended.

From Pope: His Descent and Family Connections Facts and Conjectures by Hunter, Joseph

The Koshotes, whose chiefs consider themselves to be lineally descended from a brother of Genghis Khan, were partly destroyed in intestine wars with the Torghouts and Soongars, and partly subjugated by China.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

It was her tyranny, but it was a tyranny lineally sprung from a stately past.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

At the bottom thereof is a flatt gravestone of freestone well worked, lineally with the figure of a lady in a Gothique niche.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton