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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. |
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To enter mentally; to retire. |
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To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage
ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. |
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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. |
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To pass from the more general or important to the
particular or less important matters to be considered. |
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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. |
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To move toward the south, or to the southward. |
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To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower
tone. |
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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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