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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈlɪni.əl/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈlɪniːəl/

形容詞

lineal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to lines; consisting of lines.
2. (law, history and anthropology) Relating to aspects of lineage, such as descent, succession, inheritance or consanguinity.
   • 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:

     the prime and ancient right of lineal succession

   • 1693 (first performance), John Dryden, “To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on His Comedy, Call’d, The Double-Dealer”, in The Double-Dealer. A Comedy, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1735, →OCLC, Act I,:

     Oh that your Brows my Laurel had ſuſtain'd, / Well had I been depos'd, if You had Reign'd! / The Father had deſcended for the Son; / For only you are lineal to the Throne.

3. (uncommon) In the direction of a line; measured or ascertained by a line.

   Synonym: linear

   lineal magnitude

4. (art) Line-drawn; composed of lines.

   lineal designs

5. (typography, of a typeface) Sans serif.

反意語

• collateral

等位語

• (of a line): areal, spacial, spatial

派生語

関連する語

• line
• linear
• lineage

Further reading

• “lineal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lineal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• lienal, nillae