0 in a way that relates 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):
A new baby is lineally descended from the first human beings there ever were.
Smaller, lineally organized households were defined principally on lines of kinship.
The other end of this continuum would be occupied by smaller, lineally organized households defined principally on lines of kinship.
Most books are predictably set out lineally; often the arrangement is tripartite like a meal of starter, main course, and something to finish off; sometimes it is a sausagelike continuum.
These are particularly apparent when the building marches out lineally from the towns into the country, enclosing the highway as it were between two regiments of shops and houses.
Inheritance, succession and status are lineally determined.
