• linage

FromMiddle Englishlinage, fromOld Frenchlinage, fromligne, fromLatinlinea(“line”); equivalent toline +‎-age.

• IPA^(key):/ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/

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lineage (countable anduncountable,plurallineages)

1. Descent in aline from a commonprogenitor;progeny; descending line ofoffspring or ascending line ofparentage.
   • 1596, [attributed toWilliam Shakespeare;Thomas Kyd],The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London:[…][T. Scarlet] forCuthbert Burby,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii]:

     Edwards greatlinage by the mothers ſide, / Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,

   • 1678,John Bunyan,The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London:[…] Nath[aniel] Ponder […],→OCLC,page95:

     […]; and therefore they were to me now no more than if they had never been of myLinage;[…]

   • 1725,Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl.,The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London:[…]Bernard Lintot,→OCLC,page146:

     Accept this welcome to theSpartan court; / The waſte of nature let the feaſt repair, / Then your highlineage and your names declare: / Say from what ſcepter'd anceſtry ye claim, / Recorded eminent in deathleſs fame?

   • 1819,Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym;Walter Scott],Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh:[…] [James Ballantyne and Co.] forArchibald Constable and Co.; London:Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […],→OCLC,page301:

     To counterbalance those foreign centinels^[sic], there mounted guard on the other side of the mirror two stout warders of Scottishlineage;[…]

   • 1851 April 9,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:

     “Ah, but these hens,” answered the young man,—“these hens of aristocraticlineage would scorn to understand the vulgar language of a barn-yard fowl. I prefer to think—and so would Miss Hepzibah—that they recognize the family tone. For you are a Pyncheon?”

   • 1891,Thomas Hardy,Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […],→OCLC:

     To produce Tess, fresh from the dairy, as a d’Urberville and a lady, he had felt to be temerarious and risky; hence he had concealed herlineage till such time as, familiarized with worldly ways by a few months’ travel and reading with him, he could take her on a visit to his parents and impart the knowledge while triumphantly producing her as worthy of such an ancient line. It was a pretty lover’s dream, if no more. Perhaps Tess’slineage had more value for himself than for anybody in the world beside.

   • 2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Stick insects survive one million years without sex”, inBBC‎^[1]:

     They traced the ancientlineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.

   • 2023, Ulf Mattsson,Controlling Privacy and the Use of Data Assets‎^[2], volume 2, CRC Press,→ISBN:

     Datalineage is not a new concept, but modern business requirements far outstrip the siloed, limited features of the past.[…] The demand for datalineage comes from both technical and business users, including data architects, data engineers, data stewards, analysts and data scientists, as well as business managers, compliance professionals, and technical specialists.

2. (advertising) A number oflines oftext in acolumn.
   • 1927, William Leonard Crum,Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical:

     Total newspaper advertisinglineage in the North Atlantic region

   • 1981 December 1, Ronnie Allen, “TheHerald: Shunning and Insulting”, inGay Community News, volume12, number20, page 4:

     These are mere excerpts of longer pieces by Sullivan on Boy George, and I have left out more pieces because of the limits of space. Let me add, thelineage in Sullivan's column devoted to Boy George in 1984 exceeds thelineage in the rest of theHerald devoted to all news of gays and lesbians in the same period of time.

3. Afee orrate paid per line of text.

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• “lineage”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lineage”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
• linage, lineage at theGoogle Books Ngram Viewer.