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† traˈlineate, v. Obs. rare. [f. It. tralignare ‘to degenerate, to digresse, to growe from kinde’ (Florio), repr. a. L. type *tra(ns)līneāre, f. trans- + līnea line n.2: see -ate3.] intr. To go out of the direct line; to deviate.
1700Dryden Wife of Bath's T. 396 If you tralineate from your father's mind, What are you else but of a bastard-kind? 1745Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 16 (1748) III. 193 If sons tralineate from their father's virtues, and each successive race degenerates from the former. |