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- English Word Descend Definition 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.
- English Word Descend Definition To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
- English Word Descend Definition 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.
- English Word Descend Definition To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- English Word Descend Definition To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- English Word Descend Definition 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.
- English Word Descendant Definition Descendent.
- English Word Descendant Definition One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
- English Word Descended Definition of Descend
- English Word Descendent Definition Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
- English Word Descender Definition One who descends.
- English Word Descendibility Definition The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
- English Word Descendible Definition Admitting descent; capable of being descended.
- English Word Descendible Definition That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.
- English Word Descending Definition of Descend
- English Word Descending Definition Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.
- English Word Descendingly Definition In a descending manner.
- English Word Descension Definition The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
- English Word Descensional Definition Pertaining to descension.
- English Word Descensive Definition Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.
- English Word Descensory Definition A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.
- English Word Descent Definition The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
- English Word Descent Definition Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
- English Word Descent Definition Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
- English Word Descent Definition Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
- English Word Descent Definition Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
- English Word Descent Definition Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
- English Word Descent Definition That which is descended; descendants; issue.
- English Word Descent Definition A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
- English Word Descent Definition Lowest place; extreme downward place.