v. Obs. rare. [f. It. tralignare ‘to degenerate, to digresse, to growe from kinde’ (Florio), repr. a L. type *tra(ns)līneāre, f. TRA(NS)- + linea LINE sb.2: see -ATE3.] intr. To go out of the direct line; to deviate.
1700. Dryden, Wife of Bath’s T., 396. If you tralineate from your father’s mind, What are you else but of a bastard-kind?
1745. Eliza Heywood, Female Spect., No. 16 (1748), III. 193. If sons tralineate from their father’s virtues, and each successive race degenerates from the former.
