Word Meanings - DESCEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To move toward the south, or to the southward. (more info) 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

Additional info about word: DESCEND

To move toward the south, or to the southward. (more info) 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. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller. 2. To enter mentally; to retire. with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. Milton. 3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Pope. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESCEND)

• Alight
• Perch
• drop
• descend
• dismount
• Condescend
• Stoop
• deign
• vouchsafe
• Dismount
• Drop
• Ooze
• emanate
• distil
• percolate
• fall
• decline
• faint
• droop
• Fall
• gravitate
• sink
• lapse

Related words: (words related to DESCEND)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• DEIGN
  L. dignari to deem worthy, deign, fr. dignus worthy; akin to decere to be fitting. See Decent, and cf. Dainty, Dignity, Condign, 1. To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines. Shak.
• DESCENDING
  Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing
• DESCENDENT
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• VOUCHSAFEMENT
  The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.
• DISTILLATORY
  Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• DISMOUNT
  1. To come down; to descend. But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser. 2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
• GRAVITATE
  To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object. Why does this apple fall to the ground Because all bodies gravitate toward each other.
• STOOPER
  One who stoops.
• DESCEND
  To move toward the south, or to the southward. (more info) 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
• PERCH
  1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch , and the European perch (P. fluviatilis). 2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging
• PROLAPSE
  The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
• DELAPSE
  To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
• GUTTA-PERCHA
  A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves
• RELAPSER
  One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
• SUPERCHERY
  Deceit; fraud; imposition.