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(a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.
Descending(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descend
Descendingly(adv.) In a descending manner.
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