| Descend |
v. i. |
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward;
the opposite of ascend. |
| Descend |
v. i. |
To enter mentally; to retire. |
| Descend |
v. i. |
To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence;
with on or upon. |
| Descend |
v. i. |
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate. |
| Descend |
v. i. |
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. |
| Descend |
v. i. |
To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir. |
| Descend |
v. i. |
To move toward the south, or to the southward. |
| Descend |
v. i. |
To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. |
| Descend |
v. t. |
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder. |
| Descendant |
a. |
Descendent. |
| Descendant |
n. |
One who descends, as offspring, however remotely;
correlative to ancestor or ascendant. |
| Descended |
imp. & p. p. |
of Descend |
| Descendent |
a. |
Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. |
| Descender |
n. |
One who descends. |
| Descendibility |
n. |
The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate. |
| Descendible |
a. |
Admitting descent; capable of being descended. |
| Descendible |
a. |
That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. |
| Descending |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Descend |
| Descending |
a. |
Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. |
| Descendingly |
adv. |
In a descending manner. |
