Descend

de-send', v. To pa to a lower place to 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; to be derived, proceed by generation or by transmi ion. (Astron.) To move to the southward. (Mus.) To fall in tone, pa from a higher to a lower tone. — v. To go down upon or along to pa from the top to the bottom of. [OF. des cendre, L. de- — scendere, -censum, de and scandere, to climb.] Descend'ant, n. One who descends, as offspring, however remotely. [OF., p. pr. of des cendre.] — Descendant, a. Descending; proceeding from an ancestor or source. [L. descend ens, -entts, p. pr. of descend ere. — Descend'er, n. — Descendible, a. Admitting descent; capable of being transmitted by inheritance.— Descendibility, n.—Descen's ion, -sen'. shun, n. Act of going downward descent degradation. —Descen's ional, a. Pert, to, etc. — Descen'- sive. -siv, a. Descending: tending downward; having power to descend. — Descent', n. Act of, etc. incursion sudden attack progre downward, as in station, virtue, etc., from the more to the le important, from the better to the worse, from a higher to a lower tone, etc. derivation as from an ancestor lineage birth extraction transmi ion by succe ion or inheritance: sloping surface declivity: thing derived; descendants i ue a step in the proce of derivation a generation. Describe, de-skrlb', [-scribed (-skribd'), -scribing.] To form or represent by lines, real or imaginary to sketch in writing, give an account of, represent, recount, explain, depict to have or use the power of describing. [L. describere, de and scribere, scriptum, to write. See Scribe.] — Describ'er, n.— Describ'able, a.— Descrip'tion, -skrlp's hun, n. Act of describing sketch of anything in words cla to which a representation applies qualities distinguishing such a cla . — Descrip'tive. -tiv, a. Tending to, or having the quality of, etc. containing description. — Descrip'tiveiy, aelv. — Deacry, de-skri', [-scried (-skrid'), -scrying.] To discover by the eye, as distant objects, faintly seen, espy, detect, discern. [Same as describe; OF. descrire, for descrivre, L. describere.] — Descri'er, n.