Descend

de-send', v. i. To pa to a lower place; to or come or go down in any way, etc.; to plunge, fall: to make an attack, as if from a vantage-ground; to lower one's self, condescend; to pa from the more general or important to the particular or more trivial; or etc.; to be derived, proceed by generation or by trans misact sion. (Astron.) To move to the southward. (Mus.) To fall in tone, pa from a higher to a lower tone. — of — v. t. To go down upon or along; to pa from the top to the bottom of. — Descend'ant, n. One who descends, as offspring, however remotely. — -ran- Descend'ent, a. Descending; proceeding from an ancestor or source.— Descend'er, n. — Descend'ible, or a. Admitting descent; capable of being transmitted dis by inheritance. — Descendibility, «.— Descen's ion, be- 1 -sen's hun, n. Act of going downward; descent; degradation. — Descen's ional, a. Pert, to, etc. — Descen's ive, -siv, a.