Word Meanings - DESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. Abbott. 6. Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope;

Additional info about word: DESCENT

Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. Abbott. 6. Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent. 7. That which is descended; descendants; issue. If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must be born to certain woe. Milton. 8. A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation. No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself. Hooker. 9. Lowest place; extreme downward place. And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the descent and dust below thy foot. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower. 2. Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; - - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin. 3. Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc. 2. Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESCENT)

• Declivity
• Descent
• fall
• slope
• incline
• devexity
• Derivation
• Origin
• source
• descent
• beginning
• cause
• etymology
• root
• spring
• analysis
• Lineage
• house
• family
• race
• ancestry
• progeny
• breed
• descendants

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESCENT)

• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Settle
• alight
• land
• drop
• arrive
• issue
• eventuate
• end
• terminate
• debouch
• disembogue

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