line of descent


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Noun1.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 individualline 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 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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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.
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At the time archaeologists were hoping to identify remains of Richard's sister in Belgium and needed a female line of descent.
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Since that heritage was on his father's side, he did not qualify as a Seneca within the strictly matrilineal line of descent followed by all of the Haudenosaunee Nations, and was not enrolled.
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There is a direct line of descent from Bruel's early innovations to the sound and vibration solutions Bruel & Kjaer provides today.
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For the remaining families, the genealogical research concentrated on finding at least one line of descent from couple A to the proband.
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