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DESCEND, v.i. [L. To climb.] 1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on the feet, on wheels, or by falling. A torrent descends from a mountain.The rains descended, and the floods came. Matt. 7.2. To go down, or to enter.He shall descend into battle and perish. Sam. 26.3. To come suddenly; to fall violently.And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.4. To go in; to enter.He, with honest meditations fed, into himself descended.5. To rush; to invade, as an enemy.The Grecian fleet descending on the town.6. To proceed from a source or original; to be derived. The beggar may descend from a prince, and the prince, from a beggar.7. To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance. Thus, an inheritance descends to the son or next of kin; a crown descends to the heir.8. To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.9. To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense. Flavius is an honorable man; he cannot descend to acts of meanness.10. In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.DESCEND, v.t. To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.]
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DESCEND, v.i. [L. To climb.] 1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on the feet, on wheels, or by falling. A torrent descends from a mountain.The rains descended, and the floods came. Matt. 7.2. To go down, or to enter.He shall descend into battle and perish. Sam. 26.3. To come suddenly; to fall violently.And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.4. To go in; to enter.He, with honest meditations fed, into himself descended.5. To rush; to invade, as an enemy.The Grecian fleet descending on the town.6. To proceed from a source or original; to be derived. The beggar may descend from a prince, and the prince, from a beggar.7. To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance. Thus, an inheritance descends to the son or next of kin; a crown descends to the heir.8. To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.9. To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense. Flavius is an honorable man; he cannot descend to acts of meanness.10. In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.DESCEND, v.t. To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.] |
DE-SCEND', v.i. [L. descendo; de and scando, to climb; W. discynu, from cynu, to rise, cwn, top; It. discendere; Fr. descendre; Sp. descender; Arm. disgenn. The root cwn is from extending, shooting, thrusting, as gin in begin.]- To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downward; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on the feet, on wheels, or by falling. A torrent descends from a mountain.
The rains descended, and the floods came. – Matt. vii.
- To go down, or to enter.
He shall descend into battle and perish. – 1 Sam. xxvi.
- To come suddenly; to fall violently.
And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. – Pope.
- To go in; to enter.
He, with honest meditations fed, / Into himself descended. – Milton.
- To rush; to invade, as an enemy.
The Grecian fleet descending on the town. – Dryden.
- To proceed from a source or original; to be derived. The beggar may descend from a prince, and a prince from a beggar.
- To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance. Thus, an inheritance descends to the son or next of kin; a crown descends to the heir.
- To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
- To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense. Flavius is an honorable man; he can not descend to acts of meanness.
- In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat. – Rousseau.
DE-SCEND', v.t.To walk, move, or pass downward on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.] |
De*scend"
- 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.
- 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.
- To enter mentally; to retire.
- To make an attack, or incursion, as if
from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with
on or upon.
- 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.
- To pass from the more general or important
to the particular or less important matters to be
considered.
- 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.
- To move toward the south,
or to the southward.
- To fall in pitch; to pass
from a higher to a lower tone.
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Descend DESCEND, verb intransitive [Latin To climb.] 1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on the feet, on wheels, or by falling. A torrent descends from a mountain. The rains descended, and the floods came. Matthew 7:25. 2. To go down, or to enter. He shall descend into battle and perish. Sam. 26. 3. To come suddenly; to fall violently. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend 4. To go in; to enter. He, with honest meditations fed, into himself descended. 5. To rush; to invade, as an enemy. The Grecian fleet descending on the town. 6. To proceed from a source or original; to be derived. The beggar may descend from a prince, and the prince, from a beggar. 7. To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance. Thus, an inheritance descends to the son or next of kin; a crown descends to the heir. 8. To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars. 9. To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense. Flavius is an honorable man; he cannot descend to acts of meanness. 10. In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat. DESCEND, verb transitive To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.] |
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