0 relating to a person's lineage (= the members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before him or her):
Native Hawaiians are defined as direct lineal descendants of indigenous peoples who lived on the islands before 1893.
The lineal descendants of Hamilton and Burr plan to gather on the waterfront and reenact this most famous of American duels.
It extended to all lineal descendants of the degraded individual born subsequent to the act resulting in degradation.
It is natural, for its simplicity, to establish a lineal relationship.
The holdings of a decedent with no lineal descendants and no designated heirs reverted back to the community for reassignment.
Buildings themselves tend to constitute lineal frames that subordinate their contents to their architectonics.
They conclude effect immediately from preceding cause in lineal and chronological order.
