a. Obs. [ad. L. līneārius, f. līnea LINE.] = LINEAR a. 2 and 3.
1551. Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., II. Pref. Euclides woorkes in foure partes, with diuers demonstrations Arithmeticall and Geometricall or Linearie.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 525. The linearie portraying or drawing shapes and proportions by lines alone.
1641. W. Price, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), I. 59. Whether all that may be performed by algebraical equations may likewise be wrought geometrically according to a lineary operation.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 93. We speak of such a figure as is not an accident of a body, but a meer lineary and superficiall character.
1664. Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Archit., 118. The more easy and useful principles of those lineary Arts.
