line|age

lin|e|age¹ «LIHN ee ihj», noun.

1. descent in a direct line from an ancestor: »

... he was of the house and lineage of David (Luke 2:4).

SYNONYM(S): ancestry.

2. a family or race: »

The Lords of Douglas…are second to no lineage in Scotland in the antiquity of their descent (Scott).

SYNONYM(S): stock, extraction.

3. the descendants through exclusively male or exclusively female links of a specified ancestor.

╂[alteration (influenced by line¹) of Middle English lynage < Old French lignage < ligne line¹ < Latin līnea]

line|age² «LY nihj», noun.

= linage. (Cf. ↑linage)