different between lineally vs linearly

English

Etymology

lineal +? -ly

Adverb

lineally

1. (genealogy) By direct descent.
   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, London: Benjamin Motte, Volume 2, Part 3, Chapter 8, pp. 108-109,^[1]

     […] I confess it was not without some pleasure that I found my self able to trace the particular Features, by which certain Families are distinguished, up to their Originals. I could plainly discover from whence one Family derives a long Chin […] . Who first brought the Pox into a noble House, which hath lineally descended in scrophulous Tumours to their Posterity.

   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Chapter 4,^[2]

     Of the Rev. Mr. Slope’s parentage I am not able to say much. I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr. T. Shandy, and that in early years he added an "e" to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him.

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking, Chapter 11, p. 205,^[3]

     […] I admired them both made so well, she hard and spirited, editing her words for no one, and he so distinct-looking he might have been lineally direct from Cro-Magnon man—but of course with present-day differences, including the disorders.

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• Lyellian

English

Etymology

linear +? -ly

Adverb

linearly (comparative more linearly, superlative most linearly)

1. In a linear manner.
2. In a straight line.
3. Sequentially in time; chronologically.
4. In the manner of a linear function.

   The effect related linearly to the amount of causative agent added.

5. (dance) Forward or backward, as opposed to laterally or diagonally.

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