Term Gallery logo

Meanings of line of descent in English

Portuguese
sangue
Catalan
nissaga
Spanish
casta

The descendants of one individual.

      sangue
      Usage of line of descent in English
      1
      And our line of descent was taking its chances amid it all.
      Time and Change
      2
      Parliament, therefore, set aside the direct line of descent and accepted Henry.
      The Leading Facts of English History
      3
      The line of descent is limited exclusively in the female's children.
      Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, a...
      4
      Journal' July 1863 especially on intermissions in the line of descent.
      The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...
      5
      He gave thirty years of his life to establishing the line of descent.
      The Moon Rock
      6
      Then he suggests a line of descent leading to the monkey.
      In His Image
      7
      The completely developed individual is always a terminal representative in her line of descent.
      Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
      8
      Age has more honor than all his patrician line of descent can give him.
      The Shagganappi
      9
      Can we narrow their line of descent down to a single pair for each?
      Time and Change
      10
      You can only succeed your brother in the line of descent if she is illegitimate.
      The Moon Rock
      11
      The title did not come to the present earl in the direct line of descent.
      Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
      12
      Frederick represented the straight and expected line of descent.
      The Turtles of Tasman
      13
      The line of descent is clear, if the proofs of your brother's statement are found.
      The Moon Rock
      14
      Here, however, are Moissart, Voissart, Croissart, and Froissart, all in the direct line of descent.
      The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
      15
      Towards the foot of the hill, an expanse of snow stretched across the line of descent.
      Letters from High Latitudes / Being Some Account of a Voyage in ...
      16
      But he is a many-sided creature, and may still be traced in another line of descent.
      Sophist