genealogically
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- adverb
- /ˌdʒiːniˈælədʒɪkli/
- That is, villagers do not tend to marry those either genealogically or residentially closest to them.
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Examples
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His maverick tendencies were genealogically structured, and he was convinced that the rules were made only for those fools who chose to follow them.
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Zimmerman and Wolfert are likewise genealogically oriented; they omitted all German immigrants for whom the specific place of origin is not stated, which was nearly 80 percent of their potential population.
Academic text (1991) -
In the past, people related genealogically were also linked by their common land holdings.
Academic text (1991) -
In biology, all life is related genealogically.
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In writing this history, I have not been able to avoid reflecting on the ways in which present problems in local government law seem genealogically connected to these past problems.
Academic text (2017) -
Some informants say that one should start with the relatives that are farther away geographically and genealogically.
Academic text (1993) -
As more and more antelope species entered the rolls, this genus became unwieldy, and later taxonomists divided Antilope into several new genera, genealogically defined.
Academic text (1994) -
These regulations presuppose that a single Indian group has existed since its first sustained contact with European cultures on a continuous basis to the present; that its members live in a distinct, autonomous community perceived by others as Indian; that it has maintained some sort of authority with a governing system by which its members abide; that all its members can be traced genealogically to a historic tribe; and that it can provide evidence to substantiate all of this.
Academic text (1990) -
The bungalow can be traced genealogically from India, via England, to North America and Australia, where it appears in its "California," Craftsman, Prairie, Chicago (and other) iterations beginning in the early 1900s through the 1930s (Rubin 1977; Miller 2007).
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Many people discover they are genealogically related to famous figures throughout history.
Synonyms
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In a way that relates to ancestors
Surface Forms
Morphology
genealogically = genealogical (transparent) = genealogy + ical + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'genealogical', a standard and predictable process.
Etymology
Genealogically comes from genealogy, whose root genea means 'family' and appears in familiar words like generation and gene. So, to study or show something genealogically is to do it by 'family history' or who your ancestors were.