Definition of "unlineal" [unlineal]

• Not lineal; not of a family line. (adjective)

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• "Since, then, questions about the origin of species will be raised, and have been raised, -- and since the theorizings, however different in particulars, all proceed upon the notion that one species of plant or animal is somehow derived from another, that the different sorts which now flourish are lineal (or unlineal) descendants of other and earlier sorts, -- it now concerns us to ask, What are the grounds in"
• "What proof that some unlineal hand, some barbarism, without or within, shall not wrench the sceptre of democracy from our grasp?"
• "Gawsworth itself passed to an unlineal hand, by a series of alienations complicated beyond example in the annals of this country. ""