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linage


linage or line·age [lahy-nij] ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
  2. the amount charged, paid, or received per printed line, as of a magazine article or short story.
  3. Archaic. alignment.

Origin of linage First recorded in 1880–85; line1 + -age Can be confusedlinage lineage Examples from the Web for linage Historical Examples of linage

  • For if e name of gentilesse be referred to renoun and clernesse of linage.

    Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s ‘De Consolatione Philosophiae’

    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Our vncle was not the tutor and preseruer of our stocke and linage, but the confounder & destroier of our bloud and progenie.

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9)

    Raphael Holinshed

  • Venus without doubt is mankind, which is continued by venereall propagation of linage.

    A Discovrse of Fire and Salt (A Discourse of Fire and Salt)

    Blaise de Vigenre

  • The Indians affirme that he was of the greatest bloud of all his linage, and the greatest kyng in estate, that euer was in Mexico.

    The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne

    Francisco Lpez de Gmara

  • They say, that they came of the linage of an olde man which came thither in a boat of wood, which they call a canoa.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Volume XIV (of 16)

    Richard Hakluyt

  • British Dictionary definitions for linage linage lineage noun

    1. the number of lines in a piece of written or printed matter
    2. payment for written material calculated according to the number of lines
    3. a less common word for alignment
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