Word Meanings - REDESCEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To descend again. Howell.

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• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• 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
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• 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.
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• DESCENDIBLE
  1. Admitting descent; capable of being descended. 2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. "A descendant estate." Sir W. Jones.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.
• AGAINBUY
  To redeem. Wyclif.
• DESCENDER
  One who descends.
• DESCENDANT
  Descendent.
• DESCENDINGLY
  In a descending manner.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• CONDESCEND
  1. To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal
• REDESCEND
  To descend again. Howell.
• CONDESCENDENCE; CONDESCENDENCY
  Condescension.
• CONDESCENDINGLY
  In a condescending manner. Atterbury.