Descend
Definition of Descend
De`scend´ | v. i. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | To enter mentally; to retire. | | 3. | To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; - with on or upon. | | 4. | 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. | | 5. | To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. | | 6. | 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. | | 7. | (Anat.) To move toward the south, or to the southward. | | 8. | (Mus.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. | | v. t. | 1. | 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. |
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