lineage

Definition

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

Etymology

From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); equivalent to line + -age.

Example Sentences

• "Theſe Anius Ueres [Marcus Annius Verus, father of Marcus Aurelius] was a lygnage, that auanced them to be deſcẽded [descended] of Numa Pompilio, and of Quintꝰ [Quintus] Curtius the famous Romayn: […]"
• "Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide, / Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,"
• "[…]; and therefore they were to me now no more than if they had never been of my Linage; […]"

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