lineal descendant

collocation in English

meaningsoflinealanddescendant

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lineal
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪn.i.əl/us
/ˈlɪn.i.əl/
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 ...
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descendant
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈsen.dənt/us
/dɪˈsen.dənt/
a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child ...
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(Definition oflinealanddescendantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I suggest that there is an alternative, and that is itslinealdescendant, the basic income guarantee scheme.
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Alinealdescendantcould descend from the eight grandparents.
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But the brother is not a lineal ancestor or alinealdescendant; he is a collateral.
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Surely one's daughter's daughter is not alinealdescendant.
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But that is not the end of the matter because the subsection goes on to speak of an individual's brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, lineal ancestor orlinealdescendant.
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Historically it is thelinealdescendantof piracy.
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It is a common misconception that every person who bears a clan's name is alinealdescendantof the chiefs.
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The holdings of a decedent with no lineal descendants and no designated heirs reverted back to the community for reassignment.
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However, it is a common misconception that every person who bears a clan's name is alinealdescendantof the chiefs, or members, of that particular clan.
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It extended to all lineal descendants of the degraded individual born subsequent to the act resulting in degradation.
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It is restricted now to widows and lineal descendants of the deceased man who dies serving his country.
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The gentlemen who are given these powers to deal with £150 million of the taxpayers' money are lineal descendants of the groundnuts experts.
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An advantage to what we might call our lineal descendants is rather too remote.
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That did not apply to other than the lineal descendants.
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Evidently he is one of the lineal descendants of the gentleman who used a wart on the back of his neck for a collar stud.
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Some historical connections have been demonstrated for all of these spiritual descendants, though perhaps not as clearly as the noted institutionally lineal descendants.
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In civil law countries, the doctrine of legitime plays a similar role, and makes the lineal descendants of the dead person forced heirs.
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The effects were descended through his direct lineal descendants for 150 years until sold at auction.
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The limitation indicates that only lineal descendants of the original peer may succeed to the peerage.
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Failing such eldest son and all male lineal descendants through him, the second son of the indlunkulu succeeds and failing him his male lineal descendants in due order of seniority.
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