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

The theory explains the origins of species, somewhat as follows: The variety of species now current developed out of simpler forms of animal life, from which they are lineally descended.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

In one sense the East Roman Empire was more lineally and really Roman than the West: it was absolutely continuous from ancient times.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Are we obliged to settle an annuity upon A B, because he can trace himself lineally to a man who held our lands under Edward the Confessor?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

His wife was of the family of Innes in Morayshire, 'of Scotch and Cornish extraction,' says Lord Camelford, and she was lineally descended from the Regent Murray.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose