单词 | right line of descent |
释义 | > as lemmasright line of descent (also succession) d. Of lineage or descent: direct, legitimate. Now frequently in right line of descent (also succession) and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [adjective] > in direct line rightc1330 lineal1426 direct1548 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 1808 (MED) Anon turned her mode To Vter Pendragounes riȝt blod. 1399 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1399 1st Roll §53. m. 18 I yt am disendit be right lyne of the blode comyng fro the gude lorde Kyng Henry therde. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 2150 (MED) This knyght despousyd had a lady, Hauyng decens be ryght lynage Off that wurthy and excellent stok lyneally, That Poolys men clepe. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 231 Of Ector also was he com by the ryght lyne. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxviii Who is discended of right bloode of lyne fro king Artour? 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiii. 117 Ane teinfull tratour of rycht successioun. 1595 Countess of Pembroke tr. R. Garnier Trag. Antonie v. sig. G3 v Remember not So many braue Kings which haue Egipt rul'de In right descent your ancestors haue beene. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V c, in Poems (1878) IV. 126 Mortimer, Earle of March, in the right Line Discendent, and to fore declared Heire. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a3v Pulci, Boyardo, and Ariosto, wou'd cry out, make room for the Italian Poets, the descendants of Virgil in a right Line. 1749 ‘T. Thumb’ Hist. Eng. 49 Henry Plantagenet, Son of the Empress Maud..did, by his right Descent from Henry I. restore the true Norman Line. 1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 4/2 He [sc. Obeidallah] pretended to be descended in a right line from Fatema..for which reason..the Arabs called him and his descendants Fatemites. 1834 W. Betham Orig. & Hist. Constit. Eng. I. vii. 163 The election of an individual out of the hereditary line of right descent of the crown, acquired for the commons the right of assent or dissent from the enactment of laws. 1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 59 The bicycle of the present day is a descendant in the right line of the ‘dandy’ or ‘hobby horse’ of 1819. 1931 Harvard Law Rev. 44 705 This presupposition..is in the right line of descent from the successive fashions on the social sciences a generation ago. 1957 E. Clarke My Mother who fathered Me ii. 51 The eldest son has a superior right—provided he is in the right line of descent. 2007 M. Frazer Traitor's Tale 11 He had..wrenched the crown out of the right line of succession and taken the throne by right of arms, not by right of blood. < as lemmas |
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