Lineal vs Unlineal - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between lineal and unlineal

is that lineal is lineal while unlineal is not lineal; not of a family line.

(head)

(family) Of a family relationship that includes mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, and sons, etc. as opposed to collateral.

* John Locke

the prime and ancient right of lineal succession

Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to ).

* Dryden

for only you are lineal to the throne

Composed of lines; delineated.

lineal designs

In the direction of a line; of a line; of or relating to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear.

lineal magnitude

* collateral

* matrilineal * patrilineal

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(-)

Not lineal; not of a family line.

*{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Calvin Coolidge, title=Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=What proof that some unlineal hand, some barbarism, without or within, shall not wrench the sceptre of democracy from our grasp? }}