Meanings (ES + gloss)
alcurnia • estirpe • linaje • prosapia
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
To counterbalance those foreign centinels^([sic]), there mounted guard on the other side of the mirror two stout warders of Scottish lineage; […]
[…]; and therefore they were to me now no more than if they had never been of my Linage; […]
Phrases