Definitions
inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
Word origin
From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); equivalent to line + -age.
Used in a sentence
“Theſe Anius Ueres [Marcus Annius Verus, father of Marcus Aurelius] was a lygnage, that auanced them to be deſcẽded [descended] of Numa Pompilio, and of Quintꝰ [Quintus] Curtius the famous Romayn: […]”
“Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide, / Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,”
“[…]; and therefore they were to me now no more than if they had never been of my Linage; […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Family descent”7 letters
02“Blood”7 letters
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