line of descent

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Noun	1.	line of descent - the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors filiation, lineage, descent family relationship, kinship, relationship - (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption bilateral descent - line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family unilateral descent - line of descent traced through one side of the family
	2.	line of descent - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk, family - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" side - a family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side" family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin

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I often wonder about this line of descent. I, the modern, am incontestably a man; yet I, Big-Tooth, the primitive, am not a man.

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It appears that the line of descent is through the women.

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I had learned, too, the very remarkable fact, that the stem of the Usher race, all time-honoured as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain.

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Rohit Karn Batra's "Line of Descent" stars Brendan Fraser who plays Charlie 'Charu' Jolpin.

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The publication noted that the Queen and the duke are not just cousins, they are cousins through more than one line of descent. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II are both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

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Two men who claimed the most direct line of descent to murder mastermind Charles Manson were eliminated from the bitter battle over his estate, as an L.A.

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He drew a direct line of descent to phones and computer screens from the numerous techniques that slot-machine designers use to entice gamblers to sit for hours losing money.

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He jumps past other manifestations of popular drama in the Middle Ages to construct a line of descent from the Mysteries to the death of Shakespeare.

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Riddell's magnificent drawings are clearly in line of descent from Tenniel's in Alice in Wonderland, which is fitting because the book is a meeting point of Alice in Wonderland and Animal Farm.

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After he got his DNA report he was amazed to learn about hundreds of others belonging to his Haplogroup - a group where individuals share a common ancestor or a single genetic line of descent dating back thousands of years.

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The Wilson line of descent there can be traced back to the 14th century.

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Reading about the line of descent of Turkey on all global media freedom lists has become routine as well.