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multilineal, a.|mʌltɪˈlɪnɪəl|
[f. multi- + lineal a.]
Having many lines; spec. denoting a kinship system which includes relationships derived from parents, grandparents, etc., of both father and mother. Hence multilineˈality, the fact of multilineal kinship.
a1800Steevens Note on Shaks. Twel. N. iii. iii, This Map is multilineal in the extreme, and is the first in which the Eastern Islands are included. 1882Ogilvie, Multilineal, multilinear, having many lines. 1943T. Parsons in Amer. Anthropologist XLV. 26 Since the same principle of lack of distinction by sex of intervening relative applies to still higher ascendant generations—the four great- and eight great-great-grandfathers—it is perhaps more accurate to speak of a ‘multilineal’ than a ‘bilateral’ system. 1956R. Firth Two Stud. Kinship in London 16 The ‘multilineal’ American family. Ibid. 17 It is in this way that the conversion of bilateralism into multilineality occurs. 1965G. P. Murdock Culture & Society xiii. 179 The ‘multilineal’ of Parsons..is inappropriate since..many such systems, including the American, are not in fact ‘lineal’ in any sense. |