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With direct ancestry
Answer for the clue "With direct ancestry ", 8 letters:
lineally
Word definitions for lineally in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. by an unbroken line of descent; "she is related lineally to the Royal Family"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lineally \Lin"e*al*ly\ (l[i^]n"[-e]*al*l[y^]), adv. In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. (context genealogy English) By direct descent.
Usage examples of lineally.
Chelts as lineally descended from the Tartar race, they have very facetiously nicknamed muriatic acid.
William Lockhart of Birkhill, the head of an old family in Lanarkshire, lineally descended from Sir Stephen Lockhart of Cleghorn, a member of the Privy Council, and armour-bearer to James III.
The baron was a gentleman of a fierce and choleric temperament: he was lineally descended from the redoubtable Fierabras of Normandy, who came over to England with the Conqueror, and who, in the battle of Hastings, killed with his own hand four-and-twenty Saxon cavaliers all on a row.
It can hardly be that their descendant, lineally come to us, will refuse a cup of wine-fat of the genuine vine of Sorek, grown on the south hill-sides of Hebron.