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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wiktionary, the free dictionary</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: English">edit</a>]</div> <div class="was-wotd floatright" style="padding-right: 1em"><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/Archive/2024/May#6" title="Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2024/May">WOTD – 6 May 2024</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable floatright PIE-word" style="text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><th>PIE word</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/de" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/de">*de</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#verb" title="Appendix:Glossary">verb</a> is derived from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=descenden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="descenden (page does not exist)">descenden</a> (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”),<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language" class="extiw" title="w:Anglo-Norman language">Anglo-Norman</a> <a href="/wiki/descendere#Old_French" title="descendere">descendere</a>, <a href="/wiki/descendre#Old_French" title="descendre">descendre</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" class="extiw" title="w:Old French">Old French</a> <a href="/wiki/descendere#Old_French" title="descendere">descendere</a>, <a href="/wiki/descendre#Old_French" title="descendre">descendre</a> (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”) (modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" class="extiw" title="w:French language">French</a> <a href="/wiki/descendre#French" title="descendre">descendre</a>), and from their <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#etymon" title="Appendix:Glossary">etymon</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/descendere#Latin" title="descendere">dēscendere</a>,<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#present" title="Appendix:Glossary">present</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#active" title="Appendix:Glossary">active</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#infinitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">infinitive</a> of <a href="/wiki/descendo#Latin" title="descendo">dēscendō</a> (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), from <a href="/wiki/de-#Latin" title="de-">de-</a> (<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#prefix" title="Appendix:Glossary">prefix</a> meaning ‘from; down from’) + <a href="/wiki/scando#Latin" title="scando">scandō</a> (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”) (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/skend-&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/skend- (page does not exist)">*skend-</a> (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”)). The <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#noun" title="Appendix:Glossary">noun</a> is derived from the verb.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" class="extiw" title="w:Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a>) <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>): /dɪˈsɛnd/</li> <li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a>) <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>): /dəˈsɛnd/, /di-/</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a>):</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="En-us-descend.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/En-us-descend.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/En-us-descend.ogg/En-us-descend.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:En-us-descend.ogg" title="File:En-us-descend.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9Bnd" title="Rhymes:English/ɛnd">-ɛnd</a></li> <li>Hyphenation: de‧scend</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verb">Verb</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Verb">edit</a>]</div> descend (third-person singular simple present <a href="/wiki/descends#English" title="descends">descends</a>, present participle <a href="/wiki/descending#English" title="descending">descending</a>, simple past and past participle <a href="/wiki/descended#English" title="descended">descended</a>) <ol><li>Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position. <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>) To <a href="/wiki/pass#Verb" title="pass">pass</a> from a <a href="/wiki/high#Adjective" title="high">higher</a> to a <a href="/wiki/low#Adjective" title="low">lower</a> <a href="/wiki/part#Noun" title="part">part</a> of (something, such as a <a href="/wiki/flight#Noun" title="flight">flight</a> of <a href="/wiki/stair" title="stair">stairs</a> or a <a href="/wiki/slope#Noun" title="slope">slope</a>); to <a href="/wiki/go_down" title="go down">go down</a> along or upon. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">they descended the river in boats to descend a ladder</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1667, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" class="extiw" title="w:John Milton">John Milton</a>, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_F08CAAAAQAAJ/page/n347/mode/1up">Book X</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost" class="extiw" title="w:Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost. […]</a></cite>, London: […] [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Simmons" class="extiw" title="w:Samuel Simmons">Samuel Simmons</a>], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/228722708">→OCLC</a>; republished as <cite>Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]</cite>, London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/230729554">→OCLC</a>, line 1497:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[T]hey both deſcend the Hill; […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1756 (date written), [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke" class="extiw" title="w:Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>], “Sect. XVII. The Effects of Blackness.”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Philosophical_Enquiry_into_the_Origin_of_Our_Ideas_of_the_Sublime_and_Beautiful" class="extiw" title="w:A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful">A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful</a></cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dodsley" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Dodsley">R[obert]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dodsley" class="extiw" title="w:James Dodsley">J[ames] Dodsley</a>, […], published 1757, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/3434146">→OCLC</a>, part IV, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/enqphilosophical00burkrich/page/146/mode/1up">page 146</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[I]f, after deſcending a flight of ſtairs, vve attempt inadvertently to take another ſtep in the manner of the former ones, the ſhock is extreamly rude and diſagreeable; and by no art, can vve cauſe ſuch a ſhock by the ſame means, vvhen vve expect and prepare for it.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1816 February 13, [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron" class="extiw" title="w:Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>], “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisina" class="extiw" title="w:Parisina">Parisina</a>”, in <cite>The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem</cite>, London: […] [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Davison" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Davison">T[homas] Davison</a>] for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_(publishing_house)" class="extiw" title="w:John Murray (publishing house)">John Murray</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/794780410">→OCLC</a>, stanza XX, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/siegeofcorinthpo01byro/page/87/mode/1up">page 87</a>, lines 536–537:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">But never tear his cheek descended, / And never smile his brow unbended; […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley" class="extiw" title="w:Mary Shelley">Mary Shelley</a>], chapter IX, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein" class="extiw" title="w:Frankenstein">Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […]</a></cite>, volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/830979744">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001278702;view=1up;seq=160">page 152</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1934, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Priestley" class="extiw" title="w:J. B. Priestley">J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley</a>, “To East Durham and the Tees”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Journey" class="extiw" title="w:English Journey">English Journey […]</a></cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinemann_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Heinemann (publisher)">William Heinemann</a> in association with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gollancz_Ltd" class="extiw" title="w:Victor Gollancz Ltd">Victor Gollancz</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/642292083">→OCLC</a>, section 1, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.523516/page/323/mode/1up">page 323</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[T]hese men descend very steep and dangerous cliffs near Seaham Harbour and pick up coal from the shore.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>) Of a flight of stairs, a <a href="/wiki/road#Noun" title="road">road</a>, etc.: to <a href="/wiki/lead#Verb" title="lead">lead</a> <a href="/wiki/down#Preposition" title="down">down</a> (a <a href="/wiki/hill#Noun" title="hill">hill</a>, a slope, etc.). <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">They took the steep path that descends the hill down to the beach.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a>) To <a href="/wiki/move#Verb" title="move">move</a> (someone or something) from a higher to a lower <a href="/wiki/place#Noun" title="place">place</a> or <a href="/wiki/position#Noun" title="position">position</a>; to <a href="/wiki/bring#Verb" title="bring">bring</a> or <a href="/wiki/send#Verb" title="send">send</a> (someone or something) down. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#a." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="ante">a.</abbr></a> 1677 (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale_(jurist)" class="extiw" title="w:Matthew Hale (jurist)">Matthew Hale</a>, “Concerning Vegetables, and Especially Insecta Animalia; whether any of Them are Sponte Orta, or Arise Not rather Ex Præexistente Semine”, in <cite>The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature</cite>, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/42005461">→OCLC</a>, section III, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073768015&view=1up&seq=287">page 267</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[T]he common Devv exhaled from ſome ſorts of Herbs or VVeeds, but eſpecially from the common Graſs, carries vvith it the Seminal Tincture of the Herb, vvhich being again deſcended by Devvs or Rain upon the bare and naked Earth, re-produceth the ſame Species: […]</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">intransitive</a>) To <a href="/wiki/physically" title="physically">physically</a> move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to <a href="/wiki/come#Verb" title="come">come</a> or <a href="/wiki/go#Verb" title="go">go</a> down in any <a href="/wiki/way#Noun" title="way">way</a>, such as by <a href="/wiki/climb#Verb" title="climb">climbing</a>, <a href="/wiki/fall#Verb" title="fall">falling</a>, <a href="/wiki/flow#Verb" title="flow">flowing</a>, <a href="/wiki/walk#Verb" title="walk">walking</a>, etc.; to move <a href="/wiki/downwards" title="downwards">downwards</a>; to fall, to <a href="/wiki/sink#Verb" title="sink">sink</a>. <dl><dd>Antonyms: <a href="/wiki/ascend#English" title="ascend">ascend</a>, <a href="/wiki/climb#English" title="climb">climb</a>, <a href="/wiki/go_up#English" title="go up">go up</a>, <a href="/wiki/rise#English" title="rise">rise</a></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1528 September 24 (Gregorian calendar), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sherren_Brewer" class="extiw" title="w:John Sherren Brewer">J[ohn] S[herren] Brewer</a>, compiler, “[A Commission of Sewers for the Marches of Calais, [<span title="to Sir Rob. Wingfield, Deputy of Calais, Sir Chr. Garnysshe, Porter of the Same Town, William H[ussey?], Controller of the Town, Sir Ric. Whetell, Rob. F. ……, Sub-treasurer, the Mayor of the Town, [Lieutenant] of the Staple, Hen. Planckney, Massingberd, ……, and Th. Prowde.">…] Dated Hampton Court, 14 Sept. 20 Hen. VIII.]”, in <cite>Letters and papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII" class="extiw" title="w:Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a>. […]</cite>, volume IV, part II, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longman" class="extiw" title="w:Longman">Longman & Co.</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Tr%C3%BCbner" class="extiw" title="w:Nicholas Trübner">Trübner & Co.</a>, […], published 1872, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/277886749">→OCLC</a>, paragraph 5102 (Calais), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/letterspaperspt204greauoft/page/2232/mode/1up">page 2232</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">And there is another watergang, called Haile Fayers watergang, 4 miles long and 16 feet broad, which descendeth by a spoye of stone at Hofkirk bridge into the said great river, which must always be cast at the tenants' cost.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1534 (date written; published 1553), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas More">Thomas More</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dialogue_of_Comfort_against_Tribulation" class="extiw" title="w:A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation">A Dyalogue of Comforte agaynste Tribulacyon, [<span title="Made in the Yere of Our Lorde, 1534, by Syr Thomas More Knyghte, while He was Prysoner in the Tower of London, which He Entitled thus as Foloweth. A Dyalogue of Coumfort agaynst Tribulacion, Made by an Hungarien in Laten, and Translated oute of Laten into Frenche, and oute of Frenche into Englishe.">…]</a>. Of the Deuill Named Negotium Perambulans in Tenebris, that is to Wit, Busines Walking in the Darkenesses.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rastell" class="extiw" title="w:William Rastell">William Rastell</a>], editor, <cite>The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […]</cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cawood_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:John Cawood (printer)">Iohn Cawod</a>, Iohn Waly, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tottel" class="extiw" title="w:Richard Tottel">Richarde Tottell</a>, published 30 April 1557, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1184573710">→OCLC</a>, book II, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BNRaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1124">page 1124</a>, column 2:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">They leade theyr life in pleaſure, & at a poppe, down they deſcende into hell.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1549 March 7, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Cranmer">Thomas Cranmer</a> [et al.], compilers, “An Ordre for Euensong throughout the Yeare”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" class="extiw" title="w:Book of Common Prayer">The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […]</a></cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Whitchurch" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Whitchurch">Edowardi Whitchurche</a> […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/56485293">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bookeofcommonpra00chur_1/page/n42/mode/1up">folio vii, recto</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">So God and man is one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" class="extiw" title="w:Jesus">Chriſte</a>. / Who ſuffered for oure ſaluacion: deſcended into hell, roſe agayne the third daye from the dead. / He aſcended into heauen, he ſytteth on the right hand of the father, God almighty: from whence he ſhall come to iudge the quicke and dead.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1606, Anth[ony] Langvier, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/b30334391/page/n32/mode/1up">A Caueat or Lesson of Instruction vnto the Reader, […</a>]”, in Charles Steuens [i.e., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Estienne" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Estienne">Charles Estienne</a>], John Liebault [i.e., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Liebault" class="extiw" title="w:Jean Liebault">Jean Liébault</a>], translated by Richard Surflet, <cite>Maison Rustique, or The Countrey Farme: [<span title="Compiled in the French Tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault Doctors of Physicke: And Translated into English by Richard Surflet Practitioner in Physicke. Also a Short Collection of the Hunting of the Hart, Wilde Bore, Hare, Fox, Gray, Cony; of Birds and Faulconrie. The Contents whereof are to be Seene in the Page Following.">…]</cite>, London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1203358564">→OCLC</a>, book I:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[…] Noe [i.e., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah" class="extiw" title="w:Noah">Noah</a>] vvith his familie comming out of the arke vpon the top of the mount Cordicus, deſcended into the plaine at the foote of the mountaine filled vvith dead bodies (vvhich is called Miri Adam, vvhich is as much as the place of bovvelled men) […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1611, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Bible">The Holy Bible, [<span title="Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: & with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Reuised, by His Maiesties Speciall Comandement. Appointed to be Read in Churches.">…]</a></cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:King James Version">King James Version</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Barker (printer)">Robert Barker</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/964384981">→OCLC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" class="extiw" title="w:Gospel of Matthew">Matthew</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/Bible1611/page/n1227/mode/1up">7:25</a>, column 1:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">And the raine deſcended, and the floods came, and the windes blew, and beat vpon that houſe; and it fell not: for it was founded vpon a rock.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1678, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan" class="extiw" title="w:John Bunyan">John Bunyan</a>, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-pilgrims-progress-_bunyan-john_1678/page/n14/mode/1up">The Author’s Apology for His Book</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress" class="extiw" title="w:The Pilgrim's Progress">The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […]</a></cite>, London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/228725984">→OCLC</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Dark Clouds bring VVaters, vvhen the bright bring none / Yea, dark or bright, if they their Silver drops / Cause to deſcend, the Earth, by yielding crops, / Gives praiſe to both, and carpeth not at either, / But treaſures up the Fruit they yield together: […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1648, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Herrick_(poet)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Herrick (poet)">Robert Herrick</a>, “To His Learned Friend, M. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harmar_(philologist)" class="extiw" title="w:John Harmar (philologist)">Jo[hn] Harmar</a>, Phisitian to the Colledge of Westminster”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides_(poetry_collection)" class="extiw" title="w:Hesperides (poetry collection)">Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […]</a></cite>, London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1044244285">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_hesperides-or-the-work_herrick-robert_1648_0/page/(357)/mode/1up">page 357</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">But this I knovv, ſhould <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(god)" class="extiw" title="w:Jupiter (god)">Jupiter</a> agen / Deſcend from heaven, to re-converſe vvith men; / The Romane Language full and ſuperfine, / If Iove vvo'd ſpeake, he vvo'd accept of thine.<dl><dd></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley" class="extiw" title="w:Mary Shelley">Mary Shelley</a>], chapter II, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein" class="extiw" title="w:Frankenstein">Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […]</a></cite>, volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/830979744">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001278702;view=1up;seq=39">page 31</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend: we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#a." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="ante">a.</abbr></a> 1862 (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hugh_Clough" class="extiw" title="w:Arthur Hugh Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a>, “[Untitled poem]”, in <cite>Poems: With a Memoir</cite>, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers" class="extiw" title="w:Macmillan Publishers">Macmillan and Co.</a> […], published 1862, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1231115385">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/poemswithmemo00clou/page/76/mode/1up">page 76</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">O stream descending to the sea, / Thy mossy banks between, / The flow'rets blow, the grasses grow, / The leafy trees are green. // In garden plots the children play, / The fields the labourers till, / And houses stand on either hand, / And thou descendest still.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1841, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Lane" class="extiw" title="w:Edward William Lane">Edward William Lane</a>, transl., <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights" class="extiw" title="w:One Thousand and One Nights">The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. […]</a></cite>, volume III, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Knight_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Knight (publisher)">Charles Knight and Co.</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1127756726">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sZIWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA453">page 453</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">And they accosted the sheykh Abu-r-Ruweysh and said to him, O our sheykh, Bahrám practised a strategem to effect his ascent to the top of the mountain, and how did he descend, and what wonders did he see upon the mountain? The sheykh Abu-r-Ruweysh therefore said, O Ḥasan, tell them how thou descendedst, and acquaint them with the wonders that thou sawest.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1844, Alexander Watson, “Whit Sunday. [A Prayer for Whitsuntide.]”, in <cite>The Churchman’s Sunday Evenings at Home</cite>, volume II, London: W. J. Cleaver, […]; Rugeley, Staffordshire: J. T. Walters, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/57649900">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=t-6ierwDCq4C&pg=PA163">page 163</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Let that mighty rushing wind, in which aforetime Thou descendedst, purge away the chaff of our carnal affections, and with a holy violence beat down our strongholds of sin, and all the proud imaginations that resist Thy grace.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1934, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Priestley" class="extiw" title="w:J. B. Priestley">J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley</a>, “To East Durham and the Tees”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Journey" class="extiw" title="w:English Journey">English Journey […]</a></cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinemann_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Heinemann (publisher)">William Heinemann</a> in association with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gollancz_Ltd" class="extiw" title="w:Victor Gollancz Ltd">Victor Gollancz</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/642292083">→OCLC</a>, section 1, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.523516/page/330/mode/1up">page 330</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">As it is, the miner is one of the most overworked and deplorably underpaid men in the country. […] I know very well that if your supply of coal depended on my walking several miles to a pithead, descending in a cage for half a mile, walking again to the dwindling tunnel where I had to work, then slogging away for about seven hours in that hell, all for something like two pounds a week, your grates would be empty.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2001 May, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Griesemer" class="extiw" title="w:John Griesemer">John Griesemer</a>, chapter 20, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Thinks_of_Greenland" class="extiw" title="w:No One Thinks of Greenland">No One Thinks of Greenland</a></cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picador_(imprint)" class="extiw" title="w:Picador (imprint)">Picador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-27457-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-312-27457-3">→ISBN</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/noonethinksofgre00grie/page/187/mode/1up">page 187</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Rudy felt a gust of fear rise in his chest, and he looked again in the mirror, but the hangar and stable were now beyond the rise, out of sight, he was descending so fast.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul> <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/astrology" title="astrology">astrology</a>) Of a <a href="/wiki/zodiac_sign" title="zodiac sign">zodiac sign</a>: to move away from the <a href="/wiki/zenith" title="zenith">zenith</a> towards the <a href="/wiki/horizon" title="horizon">horizon</a>; to <a href="/wiki/sink#Verb" title="sink">sink</a>; also, of a <a href="/wiki/planet" title="planet">planet</a>: to move to a place where it has less <a href="/wiki/astrological" title="astrological">astrological</a> <a href="/wiki/significance" title="significance">significance</a>.</li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/astronomy" title="astronomy">astronomy</a>) Of a <a href="/wiki/celestial_body" title="celestial body">celestial body</a>: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the <a href="/wiki/south#Noun" title="south">south</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1667, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" class="extiw" title="w:John Milton">John Milton</a>, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_F08CAAAAQAAJ/page/n110/mode/1up">Book IV</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost" class="extiw" title="w:Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost. […]</a></cite>, London: […] [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Simmons" class="extiw" title="w:Samuel Simmons">Samuel Simmons</a>], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/228722708">→OCLC</a>; republished as <cite>Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]</cite>, London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/230729554">→OCLC</a>, lines 540–543:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[T]he ſetting Sun / Slowly deſcended, and with right aſpect / Againſt the eaſtern Gate of Paradiſe / Leveld his eevning Rayes: […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley" class="extiw" title="w:Mary Shelley">Mary Shelley</a>], chapter VI, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein" class="extiw" title="w:Frankenstein">Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […]</a></cite>, volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/830979744">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001278703;view=1up;seq=124">pages 116–117</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#a." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="ante">a.</abbr></a> 1836 (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogg" class="extiw" title="w:James Hogg">James Hogg</a>, <cite>Flodden Field</cite>; republished in Robert Murray, “James Hogg”, in <cite>Hawick Songs and Song Writers</cite>, 3rd edition, Hawick, Roxburghshire: W. & J. Kennedy, 1897, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/563108450">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wZtHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31">page 31</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Sol, with broaden'd orb, descending, / Left fierce warriors still contending, / Brilliant Vesper shed her glances, / Ere they sheathed their blood-stained lances.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/biology" title="biology">biology</a>, <a href="/wiki/physiology" title="physiology">physiology</a>) Of a <a href="/wiki/body_part" title="body part">body part</a>: to move downwards, especially during <a href="/wiki/development" title="development">development</a> of the <a href="/wiki/embryo" title="embryo">embryo</a>; specifically, of the <a href="/wiki/testis" title="testis">testes</a> of a <a href="/wiki/mammal" title="mammal">mammal</a>: to move downwards from the <a href="/wiki/abdominal_cavity" title="abdominal cavity">abdominal cavity</a> into the <a href="/wiki/scrotum" title="scrotum">scrotum</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">Cryptorchidism is the failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/chemistry" title="chemistry">chemistry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>) Of a <a href="/wiki/liquid#Adjective" title="liquid">liquid</a> <a href="/wiki/substance#Noun" title="substance">substance</a>: to <a href="/wiki/distil" title="distil">distil</a> out from another substance and <a href="/wiki/gather#Verb" title="gather">gather</a> at the <a href="/wiki/bottom#Noun" title="bottom">bottom</a> of a <a href="/wiki/container" title="container">container</a>; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this <a href="/wiki/manner#Noun" title="manner">manner</a>.</li></ol></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">intransitive</a>) To <a href="/wiki/slope#Verb" title="slope">slope</a> or <a href="/wiki/stretch#Verb" title="stretch">stretch</a> downwards. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1726, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer" class="extiw" title="w:Homer">Homer</a>, “Book XVII”, in [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>], transl., <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey" class="extiw" title="w:Odyssey">The Odyssey of Homer. […]</a></cite>, volume IV, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Bernard_Lintot" class="extiw" title="w:Barnaby Bernard Lintot">Bernard Lintot</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/8736646">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fjU-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA118">page 118</a>, lines 230–231:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Novv paſs'd the rugged road, they journey dovvn / The cavern'd vvay deſcending to the tovvn, […]</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">intransitive</a>, chiefly <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#historical" title="Appendix:Glossary">historical</a>) To <a href="/wiki/alight#Verb" title="alight">alight</a> from a <a href="/wiki/carriage" title="carriage">carriage</a>, a <a href="/wiki/horse#Noun" title="horse">horse</a>, etc.; also, to <a href="/wiki/disembark" title="disembark">disembark</a> from a <a href="/wiki/vessel#Noun" title="vessel">vessel</a>; to <a href="/wiki/land#Verb" title="land">land</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1726, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer" class="extiw" title="w:Homer">Homer</a>, “Book XV”, in [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>], transl., <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey" class="extiw" title="w:Odyssey">The Odyssey of Homer. […]</a></cite>, volume IV, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Bernard_Lintot" class="extiw" title="w:Barnaby Bernard Lintot">Bernard Lintot</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/8736646">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fjU-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48">page 48</a>, lines 437–440:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Their ſails they loos'd, they laſh'd the maſt aſide, / And caſt their anchors, and the cables ty'd: / Then on the breezy ſhore deſcending, join / In grateful banquet o'er the roſy vvine.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1873, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain" class="extiw" title="w:Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a> [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dudley_Warner" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Dudley Warner">Charles Dudley Warner</a>, chapter XVII, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today" class="extiw" title="w:The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today">The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day</a></cite>, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/19373517">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gildedagethe00twairich/page/164/mode/1up">page 164</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">About ten o'clock a horse and wagon was descried making a slow approach to the camp over the prairie. […] When the conveyance at length drew up to Mr. Thompson's door, the gentleman descended with great deliberation, straightened himself up, rubbed his hands, and beaming satisfaction from every part of his radiant frame, advanced to the group that was gathered to welcome him, and which had saluted him by name as soon as he came within hearing.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">intransitive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#figurative" title="Appendix:Glossary">figurative</a>) <ol><li>To come or go down, or <a href="/wiki/reduce" title="reduce">reduce</a>, in <a href="/wiki/intensity" title="intensity">intensity</a> or some other <a href="/wiki/quality#Noun" title="quality">quality</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1605, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hall_(bishop)" class="extiw" title="w:Joseph Hall (bishop)">Jos[eph] Hall</a>, “Paragraph 78”, in <cite>Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall. […]</cite>, London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1227644625">→OCLC</a>, 2nd book, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_meditations-and-vowes-di_hall-joseph-bp_1605_0/page/199/mode/1up">page 199</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[…] VVinter comes on ſoftly, firſt by colde devves, then hoare froſts, vntill at laſt it deſcende to the hardeſt vveather of all: […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1619–1620, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fletcher_(playwright)" class="extiw" title="w:John Fletcher (playwright)">John Fletcher</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Massinger" class="extiw" title="w:Philip Massinger">Philip Massinger</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_False_One" class="extiw" title="w:The False One">The False One. A Tragedy.</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumont_and_Fletcher_folios" class="extiw" title="w:Beaumont and Fletcher folios">Comedies and Tragedies […]</a></cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Robinson" class="extiw" title="w:Humphrey Robinson">Humphrey Robinson</a>, […], and for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Moseley" class="extiw" title="w:Humphrey Moseley">Humphrey Moseley</a> […], published 1647, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/3083972">→OCLC</a>, Act V, scene ii, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/BeaumontFletcher1647/page/n276/mode/1up">page 139</a>, column 1:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Thy glories novv have touch'd the higheſt point, / And muſt deſcend.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>Of a <a href="/wiki/physical#Adjective" title="physical">physical</a> <a href="/wiki/thing" title="thing">thing</a> (such as a a <a href="/wiki/cloud#Noun" title="cloud">cloud</a> or <a href="/wiki/storm#Noun" title="storm">storm</a>) or a (generally <a href="/wiki/negative#Adjective" title="negative">negative</a>) <a href="/wiki/immaterial#Adjective" title="immaterial">immaterial</a> thing (such as <a href="/wiki/darkness" title="darkness">darkness</a>, <a href="/wiki/gloom#Noun" title="gloom">gloom</a>, or <a href="/wiki/silence#Noun" title="silence">silence</a>): to <a href="/wiki/settle#Verb" title="settle">settle</a> upon and <a href="/wiki/start#Verb" title="start">start</a> to <a href="/wiki/affect#Verb" title="affect">affect</a> a <a href="/wiki/person#Noun" title="person">person</a> or place. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1594, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garnier" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Garnier">Robert Garnier</a>, translated by Thomas Kid [i.e., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kyd" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Kyd">Thomas Kyd</a>], <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_(play)" class="extiw" title="w:Cornelia (play)">Pompey the Great, His Faire Corneliaes Tragedie: […]</a></cite>, London: […] [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Roberts_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:James Roberts (printer)">James Roberts</a>] for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ling" class="extiw" title="w:Nicholas Ling">Nicholas Ling</a>, published 1595, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1203301051">→OCLC</a>, act I, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_iM4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP20">signature B, verso</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Death dvvels vvithin vs, and if gentle Peace / Diſcend not ſoone, our ſorrovves to ſurceaſe, / Latium (alreadie quaild) vvill be deſtroyd.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1725, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer" class="extiw" title="w:Homer">Homer</a>, “Book IV”, in [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Fenton" class="extiw" title="w:Elijah Fenton">Elijah Fenton</a>], transl., <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey" class="extiw" title="w:Odyssey">The Odyssey of Homer. […]</a></cite>, volume I, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Bernard_Lintot" class="extiw" title="w:Barnaby Bernard Lintot">Bernard Lintot</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/8736646">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TzU-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA205">page 205</a>, lines 1009–1012:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Hear, Goddeſs, hear, by thoſe oblations vvon; / And for the pious fire preſerve the ſon: / His vviſh'd return vvith happy povv'r befriend, / And on the Suitors let thy vvrath deſcend.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1862, [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Converse_Heywood" class="extiw" title="w:Joseph Converse Heywood">Joseph Converse Heywood</a>], <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome" class="extiw" title="w:Salome">Salome</a>, the Daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodias" class="extiw" title="w:Herodias">Herodias</a>. A Dramatic Poem</cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._P._Putnam%27s_Sons" class="extiw" title="w:G. P. Putnam's Sons">Putnam</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/5058560">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/salomeherodias00heywrich/page/245/mode/1up">pages 244–245</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Death spreadeth darkly above thee, / Descendeth, descendeth upon thee, / Suffocating! suffocating! ah!</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1873, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain" class="extiw" title="w:Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a> [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dudley_Warner" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Dudley Warner">Charles Dudley Warner</a>, chapter XXV, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today" class="extiw" title="w:The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today">The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day</a></cite>, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/19373517">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gildedagethe00twairich/page/230/mode/1up">page 230</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">And she managed to keep the good news to herself, though it would seem that the most careless observer might have seen by her springing step and her radiant countenance that some fine piece of good fortune had descended upon her.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1934, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Priestley" class="extiw" title="w:J. B. Priestley">J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley</a>, “To Lancashire”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Journey" class="extiw" title="w:English Journey">English Journey […]</a></cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinemann_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Heinemann (publisher)">William Heinemann</a> in association with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gollancz_Ltd" class="extiw" title="w:Victor Gollancz Ltd">Victor Gollancz</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/642292083">→OCLC</a>, section 4, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.523516/page/274/mode/1up">page 274</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[A]ll the tall chimneys in it [a photograph]—and I can count twenty-five—are smoking furiously, belching out thick dark clouds that look as if they will descend on the ugly conglomeration of roofs below. That is what it must have looked like throughout all the great days of the industry.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/speech#Noun" title="speech">speech</a> or <a href="/wiki/writing#Noun" title="writing">writing</a>: to <a href="/wiki/proceed" title="proceed">proceed</a> from one <a href="/wiki/matter#Noun" title="matter">matter</a> to another; especially, to pass from more <a href="/wiki/general#Adjective" title="general">general</a> or <a href="/wiki/important" title="important">important</a> to <a href="/wiki/specific#Adjective" title="specific">specific</a> or less important matters to be <a href="/wiki/consider" title="consider">considered</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1655, Thomas Fuller, “The Re-foundation of Waltham-Abby by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Henry II of England">Henry the Second</a>”, in <cite>The History of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltham_Abbey" class="extiw" title="w:Waltham Abbey">Waltham-Abby</a> in Essex, Founded by King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Godwinson" class="extiw" title="w:Harold Godwinson">Harold</a></cite>, London: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/644015740">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-church-history-of-br_fuller-thomas_1655/page/11/mode/1up">page 11</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">But this ſubject begins to ſvvell beyond the bounds intended unto it, leſt therefore vvhat vve intended but a Tract ſhould ſvvell to a Tome, vve vvill here deſcend to matters of later date.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1759 August 25, [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" class="extiw" title="w:Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>], “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1758%E2%80%931760)" class="extiw" title="w:The Idler (1758–1760)">The Idler</a>. No. 72.”, in <cite>The Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette</cite>, volume II, number 73, London: […] R. Stevens, [<span title="at Pope’s-head, next door to the Chapter Coffee-house, in Pater-noster-Row; where advertisements and letters to the author are taken in, and w[h]ere all persons [may be] regularly served with this paper.">…], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/643154713">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sim_universal-chronicle-and-westminster-journal_1759-08-25_2-3_73/n-264/mode/1up">page 1</a>, column 3:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">He imagined that he had novv purchaſed the privilege of diſcourſe and began to deſcend to familiar queſtions, endeavouring to accommodate his diſcourſe to the groſſneſs of ruſtick underſtandings.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1797, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke" class="extiw" title="w:Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, “Letter III.”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_on_a_Regicide_Peace" class="extiw" title="w:Letters on a Regicide Peace">A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France</a></cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington_(publishers)" class="extiw" title="w:Rivington (publishers)">F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington</a>, […]; sold also by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hatchard" class="extiw" title="w:John Hatchard">J[ohn] Hatchard</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1256347701">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/thirdlettertomem00burk/page/121/mode/1up">page 121</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">But let us deſcend to particulars.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1827 March, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Babington Macaulay">Thomas Babington Macaulay</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli" class="extiw" title="w:Niccolò Machiavelli">[Niccolò] Machiavelli</a>. […]”, in <cite>Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Review#Edinburgh_Review,_1802–1929" class="extiw" title="w:Edinburgh Review">Edinburgh Review</a>. […]</cite>, 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longman" class="extiw" title="w:Longman">Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans</a>, […], published 1843, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/4751104">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/criticalhistoric01maca_0/page/70/mode/1up">page 70</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be collected.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>Chiefly followed by <a href="/wiki/into" title="into">into</a> or <a href="/wiki/to#Preposition" title="to">to</a>: of a <a href="/wiki/situation" title="situation">situation</a>: to <a href="/wiki/become" title="become">become</a> <a href="/wiki/worse#Adjective" title="worse">worse</a>; to <a href="/wiki/decline#Verb" title="decline">decline</a>, to <a href="/wiki/deteriorate" title="deteriorate">deteriorate</a>. <dl><dd>Synonym: <a href="/wiki/degenerate#English" title="degenerate">degenerate</a></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">The meeting descended into chaos.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>Chiefly followed by <a href="/wiki/on#Preposition" title="on">on</a> or <a href="/wiki/upon" title="upon">upon</a>: to <a href="/wiki/make#Verb" title="make">make</a> an <a href="/wiki/attack#Noun" title="attack">attack</a> or <a href="/wiki/incursion" title="incursion">incursion</a>, from or as if from a <a href="/wiki/vantage#Noun" title="vantage">vantage</a> <a href="/wiki/ground#Noun" title="ground">ground</a>; to come <a href="/wiki/suddenly" title="suddenly">suddenly</a> and with <a href="/wiki/violence#Noun" title="violence">violence</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1893 April, Hanns Oertel, “Article IV. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiminiya_Upanishad_Brahmana" class="extiw" title="w:Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana">Jāiminīya or Talavakāra Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa</a>: Text, Translation, and Notes”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Oriental_Society" class="extiw" title="w:Journal of the American Oriental Society">Journal of the American Oriental Society</a></cite>, volume XVI, New Haven, Conn.: […] Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" class="extiw" title="w:Yale University">Yale University</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Oriental_Society" class="extiw" title="w:American Oriental Society">American Oriental Society</a>, published 1896, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0003-0279">→ISSN</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/47785421">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/journalofamerica16ameruoft/page/201/mode/1up">page 201</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">When moving down against [him] thou descendest against the sleeping man unknowing, let <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varuna" class="extiw" title="w:Varuna">Varuṇa</a> cover me with a golden armor.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1934, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Priestley" class="extiw" title="w:J. B. Priestley">J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley</a>, “To the Tyne”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Journey" class="extiw" title="w:English Journey">English Journey […]</a></cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinemann_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Heinemann (publisher)">William Heinemann</a> in association with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gollancz_Ltd" class="extiw" title="w:Victor Gollancz Ltd">Victor Gollancz</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/642292083">→OCLC</a>, section 1, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.523516/page/288/mode/1up">page 288</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">I suffer at times from damp snivelling colds in the head, which descend upon me quite suddenly, turning me into a helpless and disgusting red-nosed and red-eyed animal feebly crying for still more handkerchiefs.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2013, Alfred Grossmith Mason, Julie Grossmith Deltrice, <cite>Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=v4FsBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT48">[1]</a>, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Maritime, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_and_Sword_Books" class="extiw" title="w:Pen and Sword Books">Pen & Sword Books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78303-037-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78303-037-8">→ISBN</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[T]he low growl of engines coming from high above the cloud cover, alerts us to the fact that there are many more aircraft descending on us than had done during previous visits from the snoopers in their usual ones and twos.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>Chiefly followed by on or upon: to <a href="/wiki/arrive" title="arrive">arrive</a> <a href="/wiki/suddenly" title="suddenly">suddenly</a> or <a href="/wiki/unexpectedly" title="unexpectedly">unexpectedly</a>, especially in a manner that <a href="/wiki/cause#Verb" title="cause">causes</a> <a href="/wiki/disruption" title="disruption">disruption</a> or <a href="/wiki/inconvenience#Noun" title="inconvenience">inconvenience</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">My neighbour descended upon me just as I was walking out the door.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#reflexive" title="Appendix:Glossary">reflexive</a>) To <a href="/wiki/come_down" title="come down">come down</a> to a <a href="/wiki/humble#Adjective" title="humble">humbler</a> or less <a href="/wiki/fortunate" title="fortunate">fortunate</a>, or a worse or less <a href="/wiki/virtuous" title="virtuous">virtuous</a>, <a href="/wiki/rank#Noun" title="rank">rank</a> or <a href="/wiki/state#Noun" title="state">state</a>; to <a href="/wiki/abase" title="abase">abase</a> or <a href="/wiki/lower#Verb" title="lower">lower</a> oneself; to <a href="/wiki/condescend" title="condescend">condescend</a> or <a href="/wiki/stoop#Verb" title="stoop">stoop</a> to something. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">He descended from his high estate.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1608, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hall_(bishop)" class="extiw" title="w:Joseph Hall (bishop)">Jos[eph] Hall</a>, “Of the Truly-noble”, in <cite>Characters of Vertues and Vices: […]</cite>, London: […] Melch[isidec] Bradwood for Eleazar Edgar and Samuel Macham, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/15646141">→OCLC</a>, 1st book (Characterismes of Vertues), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_characters-of-vertues-an_hall-joseph-bp_1608/page/54/mode/1up">page 54</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[I]f (as ſeldome) he deſcend to diſports of chance, his games ſhall neuer make him either pale vvith feare, or hote vvith deſire of gaine.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1667, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" class="extiw" title="w:John Milton">John Milton</a>, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_F08CAAAAQAAJ/page/n231/mode/1up">Book VIII</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost" class="extiw" title="w:Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost. […]</a></cite>, London: […] [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Simmons" class="extiw" title="w:Samuel Simmons">Samuel Simmons</a>], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/228722708">→OCLC</a>; republished as <cite>Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]</cite>, London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/230729554">→OCLC</a>, lines 168–171:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">But what will not Ambition and Revenge / Deſcend to? vvho aſpires muſt down as low / As high he ſoard, obnoxious firſt or laſt / To baſeſt things.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1752 March 28 (Gregorian calendar), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" class="extiw" title="w:Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, “No. 208. [Tuesday], March 17. 1752.”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rambler" class="extiw" title="w:The Rambler">The Rambler</a></cite>, volume VIII, Edinburgh: […] Sands, Murray, and Cochran; sold by W. Gordon, C. Wright, J. Yair, […], published 1752, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/702676921">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ramblerbysjohns09unkngoog/page/n185/mode/1up">page 171</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">If I have not been diſtinguiſhed by the diſtributers of literary honours, I have ſeldom deſcended to any of the arts by vvhich favour is obtained.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1813, Lord Byron, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giaour" class="extiw" title="w:The Giaour">The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale</a></cite>, 8th edition, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Davison" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Davison">Thomas Davison</a>, […], for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:John Murray (publisher)">John Murray</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/813693480">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/giaourfragmentof00byro/page/42/mode/1up">page 42</a>, lines 850–852:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Not oft to smile descendeth he, / And when he doth 'tis sad to see / That he but mocks at Misery.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1827 March, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Babington Macaulay">Thomas Babington Macaulay</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli" class="extiw" title="w:Niccolò Machiavelli">[Niccolò] Machiavelli</a>. […]”, in <cite>Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Review#Edinburgh_Review,_1802–1929" class="extiw" title="w:Edinburgh Review">Edinburgh Review</a>. […]</cite>, 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longman" class="extiw" title="w:Longman">Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans</a>, […], published 1843, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/4751104">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/criticalhistoric01maca_0/page/92/mode/1up">page 92</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">But that a shrewd statesman, whose earliest works are characterised by manliness of thought and language, should, at near sixty years of age, descend to such puerility, is utterly inconceivable.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#reflexive" title="Appendix:Glossary">reflexive</a>, chiefly <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#poetic" title="Appendix:Glossary">poetic</a> or <a href="/wiki/religion" title="religion">religion</a>) Chiefly in the form descend into (or <a href="/wiki/within#Preposition" title="within">within</a>) oneself: to <a href="/wiki/mentally" title="mentally">mentally</a> <a href="/wiki/enter#Noun" title="enter">enter</a> a state of (<a href="/wiki/deep#Adjective" title="deep">deep</a>) <a href="/wiki/meditation" title="meditation">meditation</a> or <a href="/wiki/thought#Noun" title="thought">thought</a>; to <a href="/wiki/retire#Verb" title="retire">retire</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1653, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howell" class="extiw" title="w:James Howell">James Howell</a>, “The Oration of the Lord George Frederique, Baron of Limburg, and Hereditary Officer to the Sacred Roman Empire, and Allwayes Free. Against Spain.”, in <cite>A German Diet: Or, The Ballance of Europe, [<span title="Wherein the Power and Weaknes, Glory and Reproch, Vertues and Vices, Plenty and Want, Advantages and Defects, Antiquity and Modernes of All the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are Impartially Poiz’d. At a Solemn Convention of Som German Princes in Sundry Elaborat Orations Pro & Con. Made Fit for the Meridian of England, by James Howell Esq.">…]</cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Moseley" class="extiw" title="w:Humphrey Moseley">Humphrey Moseley</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/12953114">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GizZ6XEirFEC&pg=RA2-PA26">page 26</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">VVhen I deſcend into my ſelf, and contemplat my moſt terrible horrible terribility, I can hardly hold my ſelf vvithin my ſelf; […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1671, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" class="extiw" title="w:John Milton">John Milton</a>, “The Second Book”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Regained" class="extiw" title="w:Paradise Regained">Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes</a></cite>, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/228732398">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/paradiseregaindp00milt_0/page/n43/mode/1up">page 34</a>, lines 111–113:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[He] vvith holieſt Meditations fed, / Into himſelf deſcended, and at once / All his great vvork to come before him ſet; […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1797, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke" class="extiw" title="w:Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, “Letter III.”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_on_a_Regicide_Peace" class="extiw" title="w:Letters on a Regicide Peace">A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France</a></cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington_(publishers)" class="extiw" title="w:Rivington (publishers)">F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington</a>, […]; sold also by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hatchard" class="extiw" title="w:John Hatchard">J[ohn] Hatchard</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1256347701">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/thirdlettertomem00burk/page/89/mode/1up">page 89</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Let us deſcend into our ovvn boſoms; let us aſk ourſelves vvhat are our duties, and vvhat are our means of diſcharging them.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/mathematics" title="mathematics">mathematics</a>) Of a <a href="/wiki/sequence#Noun" title="sequence">sequence</a> or <a href="/wiki/series" title="series">series</a>: to proceed from higher to lower <a href="/wiki/value#Noun" title="value">values</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1715, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cheyne_(physician)" class="extiw" title="w:George Cheyne (physician)">George Cheyne</a>, “Of the Use of the Arithmetick of Infinites. Corollary I.”, in <cite>Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Revealed: [<span title="In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Elements of Natural Philosophy and the Proofs of Natural Religion Arising from Them. The Second Edition Corrected and Enlarged. Part II. Containing the Nature and Kinds of Infinites; Their Arithmetick and Uses: Together with the Philosophick Principles of Reveal’d Religion. Now First Publish’d.">…] Philosophical Principles of Religion. Part II. […]</cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Strahan_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:George Strahan (publisher)">George Strahan</a> […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1325737724">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9StrydpHJVkC&pg=RA2-PA162">page 162</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Indefinite numbers I ſuppoſe to be intermediate Numbers lying betvveen finite and infinite: For as vve do not deſcend from 1 to 0 at one Step, but muſt paſs through an infinite Series of Fractions, ½, ⅓, ¼, 1<big>⁄</big>5, &c.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/music" title="music">music</a>) To pass from a higher to a lower <a href="/wiki/note#Noun" title="note">note</a> or <a href="/wiki/tone#Noun" title="tone">tone</a>; to fall in <a href="/wiki/pitch#Noun" title="pitch">pitch</a>.</li></ol></li></ol></li> <li>Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing. <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#rare" title="Appendix:Glossary">rare</a>) To <a href="/wiki/trace#Verb" title="trace">trace</a> (a <a href="/wiki/lineage" title="lineage">lineage</a>) from <a href="/wiki/early#Adjective" title="early">earlier</a> to <a href="/wiki/late#Adjective" title="late">later</a> <a href="/wiki/generation" title="generation">generations</a>.</li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">intransitive</a>) Of a <a href="/wiki/characteristic#Noun" title="characteristic">characteristic</a>: to be <a href="/wiki/transmit" title="transmit">transmitted</a> from a <a href="/wiki/parent#Noun" title="parent">parent</a> to a <a href="/wiki/child#Noun" title="child">child</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1713 December 19 (Gregorian calendar), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steele" class="extiw" title="w:Richard Steele">Richard Steele</a>, “December 8. [1713].”, in <cite>The Englishman: Being the Sequel of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian_(1713)" class="extiw" title="w:The Guardian (1713)">Guardian</a></cite>, collected edition, number 28, London: […] Sam[uel] Buckley […], published 1714, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/26010926">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sim_englishman-being-the-sequel-of-the-guardian_1713-10-06-1715-02-15_1-57/page/n182/mode/1up">page 182</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[T]he eternal Mark of having had a vvicked Anceſtor deſcends to his Poſterity; his VVife is deprived of her Dovvry, and all his Deſcendants are made ignoble: […]</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">intransitive</a>, often <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#passive_voice" title="Appendix:Glossary">passive voice</a>) Chiefly followed by <a href="/wiki/from" title="from">from</a> or (obsolete) <a href="/wiki/of#Preposition" title="of">of</a>: to come down or <a href="/wiki/derive" title="derive">derive</a> from an <a href="/wiki/ancestor" title="ancestor">ancestor</a> or <a href="/wiki/ancestral" title="ancestral">ancestral</a> <a href="/wiki/stock#Noun" title="stock">stock</a>, or a <a href="/wiki/source#Noun" title="source">source</a>; to <a href="/wiki/originate" title="originate">originate</a>, to <a href="/wiki/stem#Verb" title="stem">stem</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">The beggar may descend from a prince.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1591 (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_2" class="extiw" title="w:Henry VI, Part 2">The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act IV, scene iv], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrvvilliamshakes00shak/page/n503/mode/1up">page 140</a>, column 1:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The Rebels are in Southvvarke: Fly my Lord: / <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cade%27s_Rebellion" class="extiw" title="w:Jack Cade's Rebellion">Iacke Cade</a> proclaimes himſelfe Lord Mortimer, / Deſcended from the Duke of Clarence houſe, / And calles your Grace Vſurper, openly, / And vovves to Crovvne himſelfe in VVeſtminſter.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#c." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr></a> 1598–1600 (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It" class="extiw" title="w:As You Like It">As You Like It</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act I, scene ii], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrvvilliamshakes00shak/page/n211/mode/1up">page 188</a>, column 1:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Thou ſhould'ſt haue better pleas'd me vvith this deede, / Hadſt thou deſcended from another houſe: […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1616, Charles Steuens [i.e., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Estienne" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Estienne">Charles Estienne</a>], John Liebault [i.e., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Liebault" class="extiw" title="w:Jean Liebault">Jean Liébault</a>]; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_Markham" class="extiw" title="w:Gervase Markham">Gervase Markham</a>, “[Of Hunting or Chasing of the Stag.] What Dogs are Best for the Course or Hunting.”, in Richard Surflet, transl., <cite>Maison Rustique, or, The Countrey Farme. [<span title="Compyled in the French Tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And Translated into English by Richard Surflet, Practitioner in Physicke. Now Newly Reuiewed, Corrected, and Augmented, with Diuers Large Additions, out of the Works of Seres His Agriculture, Vinet His Maison Champestre, French. Albyterio in Spanish, Grilli in Italian; and Other Authors. And the Husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, Reconciled and Made to Agree with Ours here in England: By Gervase Markham. The Whole Contents are in the Page Following.">…]</cite>, new edition, London: […] Adam Jslip for John Bill, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606545642">→OCLC</a>, book VII (The Warren), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/b30335656/page/674/mode/1up">page 674</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[I]f a dog be not vvel deſcended, that is to ſay, begot by an excellent dog, or an excellent bitch, there can be little hope of his goodneſſe.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1711 June 10 (Gregorian calendar), [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steele" class="extiw" title="w:Richard Steele">Richard Steele</a>], “WEDNESDAY, May 30, 1711”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator_(1711)" class="extiw" title="w:The Spectator (1711)">The Spectator</a></cite>, number 78; republished in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Chalmers" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Chalmers">Alexander Chalmers</a>, editor, <cite>The Spectator; a New Edition, […]</cite>, volume I, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Appleton_%26_Company" class="extiw" title="w:D. Appleton & Company">D[aniel] Appleton & Company</a>, 1853, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/191120697">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA469">page 469</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The humble petition of WHO and WHICH, […] We are descended of ancient families, and kept up our dignity and honour many years till the jack-sprat THAT supplanted us.<dl><dd>The spelling has been modernized.</dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1788, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Gibbon">Edward Gibbon</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_(emperor)" class="extiw" title="w:Zeno (emperor)">Zeno</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasius_I_Dicorus" class="extiw" title="w:Anastasius I Dicorus">Anastasius</a>, Emperors of the East […]”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="extiw" title="w:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire">The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</a></cite>, volume IV, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strahan_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:William Strahan (publisher)">W[illiam] Strahan</a>; and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cadell_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Cadell (publisher)">T[homas] Cadell</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/995235880">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofdecline04gibb_0/page/4/mode/1up">page 4</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">An hero, deſcended from a race of Kings, muſt have deſpiſed the baſe Iſaurian vvho vvas inveſted vvith the Roman purple, vvithout any endovvments of mind or body, vvithout any advantages of royal birth, or ſuperior qualifications.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1873, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain" class="extiw" title="w:Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a> [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dudley_Warner" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Dudley Warner">Charles Dudley Warner</a>, chapter XXI, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today" class="extiw" title="w:The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today">The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day</a></cite>, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/19373517">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gildedagethe00twairich/page/196/mode/1up">page 196</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">They came over to Massachusetts Bay in another vessel, and thus escaped the onus of that brevet nobility under which the successors of the Mayflower Pilgrims had descended.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1944, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham" class="extiw" title="w:W. Somerset Maugham">W[illiam] Somerset Maugham</a>, chapter 3, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Razor%27s_Edge" class="extiw" title="w:The Razor's Edge">The Razor’s Edge […]</a></cite>, 1st American edition, Garden City, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Doubleday (publisher)">Doubleday, Doran & Co.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/963152856">→OCLC</a>, section v, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264616/page/n143/mode/1up">page 140</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Didn't you know? I am descended in the female line from the Court de Lauria who came over to England in the suite of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain" class="extiw" title="w:Philip II of Spain">Philip the Second</a> and married a maid of honour of Queen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Mary I of England">Mary</a>.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">intransitive</a>, chiefly <a href="/wiki/law#English" title="law">law</a>) Of <a href="/wiki/property" title="property">property</a>, a <a href="/wiki/right#Noun" title="right">right</a>, etc.: to <a href="/wiki/pass_down" title="pass down">pass down</a> to a <a href="/wiki/generation" title="generation">generation</a>, a person, etc., by <a href="/wiki/inheritance" title="inheritance">inheritance</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">The crown descends to the heir of the previous monarch.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1628, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Coke">Edw[ard] Coke</a>, “Of Rents”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutes_of_the_Lawes_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Institutes of the Lawes of England">The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […]</a></cite>, London: […] [Adam Islip] for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Stationers_and_Newspaper_Makers" class="extiw" title="w:Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers">Societe of Stationers</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/84760833">→OCLC</a>, book 2, section 222, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/firstpartofinsti011628coke/page/n313/mode/1up">folio 148, verso</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[I]f the Tenant giue a part of the Tenancie to the father of the Lord in Taile, the father dieth, and this deſcends to the Lord, in this caſe by Act in Law the Seigniorie is ſuſpended in part and in eſſe for part, and the ſame Law is of a Rent charge.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1765, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone" class="extiw" title="w:William Blackstone">William Blackstone</a>, “Of Corporations”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Laws_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Commentaries on the Laws of England">Commentaries on the Laws of England</a></cite>, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Clarendon Press</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/65350522">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lawsofenglandc01blacuoft/page/469/mode/1up">page 469</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the <a href="/wiki/dotation#Noun" title="dotation">dotation</a> the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, vvhich vvould otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1911, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_George_Frazer" class="extiw" title="w:James George Frazer">J[ames] G[eorge] Frazer</a>, “The Fire-drill”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough" class="extiw" title="w:The Golden Bough">The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion</a></cite>, 3rd edition, part I (The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, volume II), London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers" class="extiw" title="w:Macmillan Publishers">Macmillan and Co.</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1114903848">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/magicartevolutio0002fraz/page/217/mode/1up">page 217</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The possession of the sacred fire and of the ancestral sticks, carrying with it both political authority and priestly dignity, descends in the male line, and hence generally passes from father to son.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Conjugation">Conjugation</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Conjugation">edit</a>]</div> <div class="NavFrame" style="max-width:42em;"> <div class="NavHead">Conjugation of descend</div> <div class="NavContent" style="overflow:auto"> <table style="width:100%; margin: 0px;" class="wikitable inflection-table"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#infinitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">infinitive</a> </th> <td colspan="3">(<a href="/wiki/to#English" title="to">to</a>) descend </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <th style="width: 50%; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#present_tense" title="Appendix:Glossary">present tense</a> </th> <th style="width: 50%; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#past_tense" title="Appendix:Glossary">past tense</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#first-person" title="Appendix:Glossary">1st-person</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a></th><td rowspan="1"> descend </td><td rowspan="1"> <a href="/wiki/descended#English" title="descended">descended</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#second-person" title="Appendix:Glossary">2nd-person</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a> </th><td rowspan="1"> descend, <a href="/wiki/descendest#English" title="descendest">descendest</a>† </td><td rowspan="1"> <a href="/wiki/descended#English" title="descended">descended</a>, <a href="/wiki/descendedst#English" title="descendedst">descendedst</a>† </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#third-person" title="Appendix:Glossary">3rd-person</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a> </th><td rowspan="1"> <a href="/wiki/descends#English" title="descends">descends</a>, <a href="/wiki/descendeth#English" title="descendeth">descendeth</a>† </td><td rowspan="2"> <a href="/wiki/descended#English" title="descended">descended</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#plural" title="Appendix:Glossary">plural</a> </th><td> descend </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#subjunctive" title="Appendix:Glossary">subjunctive</a> </th><td> descend </td><td><a href="/wiki/descended#English" title="descended">descended</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#imperative" title="Appendix:Glossary">imperative</a> </th><td> descend </td> <td>—</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#participle" title="Appendix:Glossary">participles</a> </th><td> <a href="/wiki/descending#English" title="descending">descending</a> </td> <td> <a href="/wiki/descended#English" title="descended">descended</a> </td> </tr></tbody></table> <div style="width:100%;text-align:left;background:#f7f8fa"> <div style="display:inline-block;text-align:left;padding-left:1em;padding-right:1em"><div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> †<a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Glossary#archaic" title="Wiktionary:Glossary">Archaic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Glossary#obsolete" title="Wiktionary:Glossary">obsolete</a>. </div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Derived terms">edit</a>]</div> <div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/descendable#English" title="descendable">descendable</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descendable#English" title="descendable">descendable</a>, <a href="/wiki/descendible#English" title="descendible">descendible</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descendance#English" title="descendance">descendance</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descendancy#English" title="descendancy">descendancy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descendancy#English" title="descendancy">descendancy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descended#English" title="descended">descended</a> (adjective)</li><li><a href="/wiki/descendence#English" title="descendence">descendence</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descendency#English" title="descendency">descendency</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descender#English" title="descender">descender</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descendible#English" title="descendible">descendible</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descending#English" title="descending">descending</a> (adjective, noun)</li><li><a href="/wiki/descend_into_the_arena#English" title="descend into the arena">descend into the arena</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descend_on#English" title="descend on">descend on</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descend_upon#English" title="descend upon">descend upon</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/maldescended#English" title="maldescended">maldescended</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/redescend#English" title="redescend">redescend</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/redescend#English" title="redescend">redescend</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/undescended#English" title="undescended">undescended</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/undescended#English" title="undescended">undescended</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Related terms">edit</a>]</div> <div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/ascend#English" title="ascend">ascend</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/condescend#English" title="condescend">condescend</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descendant#English" title="descendant">descendant</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/descent#English" title="descent">descent</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/scan#English" title="scan">scan</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/scandent#English" title="scandent">scandent</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/transcend#English" title="transcend">transcend</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Translations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_pass_from_a_higher_to_a_lower_part_of_(something)"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskea#Finnish" title="laskea">laskea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskea" class="extiw" title="fi:laskea">(fi)</a> (to descend a river), <a href="/wiki/laskeutua#Finnish" title="laskeutua">laskeutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskeutua" class="extiw" title="fi:laskeutua">(fi)</a></li> <li>French: <a href="/wiki/descendre#French" title="descendre">descendre</a> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendre" class="extiw" title="fr:descendre">(fr)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li> <li>Spanish: <a href="/wiki/descender#Spanish" title="descender">descender</a> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/descender" class="extiw" title="es:descender">(es)</a></li> <li>Turkish: <a href="/wiki/inmek#Turkish" title="inmek">inmek</a> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/inmek" class="extiw" title="tr:inmek">(tr)</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_flight_of_stairs,_a_road,_etc.:_to_lead_down_(a_hill,_a_slope,_etc.)"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.)</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.)"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskea#Finnish" title="laskea">laskea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskea" class="extiw" title="fi:laskea">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_move_(someone_or_something)_from_a_higher_to_a_lower_place_or_position"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskea#Finnish" title="laskea">laskea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskea" class="extiw" title="fi:laskea">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_physically_move_or_pass_from_a_higher_to_a_lower_place_or_position"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Afrikaans: <a href="/wiki/afgaan#Afrikaans" title="afgaan">afgaan</a></li> <li>Arabic: <a href="/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%84#Arabic" title="نزل">نَزَلَ</a> (nazala) <dl><dd>Egyptian Arabic: <a href="/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%84#Egyptian_Arabic" title="نزل">نزل</a> (nizil)</dd> <dd>Moroccan Arabic: <a href="/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A8%D8%B7#Moroccan_Arabic" title="هبط">هبط</a> (hbaṭ), <a href="/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%84#Moroccan_Arabic" title="نزل">نزل</a> (nzal)</dd></dl></li> <li>Armenian: <a href="/wiki/%D5%AB%D5%BB%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%AC#Armenian" title="իջնել">իջնել</a> <a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%AB%D5%BB%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%AC" class="extiw" title="hy:իջնել">(hy)</a> (iǰnel)</li> <li>Aromanian: <a href="/wiki/dipun#Aromanian" title="dipun">dipun</a>, <a href="/wiki/versu#Aromanian" title="versu">versu</a></li> <li>Azerbaijani: <a href="/wiki/%C3%A7%C3%B6km%C9%99k#Azerbaijani" title="çökmək">çökmək</a> <a href="https://az.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A7%C3%B6km%C9%99k" class="extiw" title="az:çökmək">(az)</a>, <a href="/wiki/enm%C9%99k#Azerbaijani" title="enmək">enmək</a> <a href="https://az.wiktionary.org/wiki/enm%C9%99k" class="extiw" title="az:enmək">(az)</a></li> <li>Balinese: <a href="/wiki/tuun#Balinese" title="tuun">tuun</a></li> <li>Bashkir: <a href="/wiki/%D1%82%D3%A9%D1%88%D3%A9%D2%AF#Bashkir" title="төшөү">төшөү</a> (töşöw)</li> <li>Belarusian: <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%86%D0%B0#Belarusian" title="спускацца">спуска́цца</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (spuskácca), <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D1%86%D1%96%D1%86%D1%86%D0%B0#Belarusian" title="спусціцца">спусці́цца</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (spuscícca)</li> <li>Bulgarian: <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BC#Bulgarian" title="слизам">слизам</a> <a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BC" class="extiw" title="bg:слизам">(bg)</a> (slizam), <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D1%81%D0%B5&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="спускам се (page does not exist)">спускам се</a> (spuskam se)</li> <li>Burmese: <a href="/wiki/%E1%80%86%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8#Burmese" title="ဆင်း">ဆင်း</a> <a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%80%86%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8" class="extiw" title="my:ဆင်း">(my)</a> (hcang:)</li> <li>Catalan: <a href="/wiki/descendir#Catalan" title="descendir">descendir</a> <a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendir" class="extiw" title="ca:descendir">(ca)</a></li> <li>Chickasaw: <a href="/w/index.php?title=akkowa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="akkowa (page does not exist)">akkowa</a></li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Mandarin: <a href="/wiki/%E9%99%8D#Mandarin" title="降">降</a> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%99%8D" class="extiw" title="zh:降">(zh)</a>, <a href="/wiki/%E4%B8%8B#Mandarin" title="下">下</a> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8B" class="extiw" title="zh:下">(zh)</a> (xià), <a href="/wiki/%E4%B8%8B%E9%99%8D#Mandarin" title="下降">下降</a> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8B%E9%99%8D" class="extiw" title="zh:下降">(zh)</a> (xiàjiàng)</dd></dl></li> <li>Czech: <a href="/wiki/sestoupit#Czech" title="sestoupit">sestoupit</a></li> <li>Dutch: <a href="/wiki/afdalen#Dutch" title="afdalen">afdalen</a> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/afdalen" class="extiw" title="nl:afdalen">(nl)</a>, <a href="/wiki/neerdalen#Dutch" title="neerdalen">neerdalen</a> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/neerdalen" class="extiw" title="nl:neerdalen">(nl)</a></li> <li>Egyptian: <table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_O4.png?2d920" height="18" title="O4 [h]" alt="h" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_G1.png?4d556" height="38" title="G1 [A]" alt="A" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_D54.png?75932" height="18" title="D54" alt="D54" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> (<a href="/wiki/h%EA%9C%A3j#Egyptian" title="hꜣj">hꜣj</a>)</li> <li>Esperanto: <a href="/w/index.php?title=profundi%C4%9Di&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="profundiĝi (page does not exist)">profundiĝi</a></li> <li>Estonian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=alanduma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="alanduma (page does not exist)">alanduma</a>, <a href="/wiki/langema#Estonian" title="langema">langema</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=laskuma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="laskuma (page does not exist)">laskuma</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=madalduma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="madalduma (page does not exist)">madalduma</a></li> <li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskeutua#Finnish" title="laskeutua">laskeutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskeutua" class="extiw" title="fi:laskeutua">(fi)</a></li> <li>French: <a href="/wiki/descendre#French" title="descendre">descendre</a> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendre" class="extiw" title="fr:descendre">(fr)</a></li> <li>Friulian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=dismont%C3%A2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="dismontâ (page does not exist)">dismontâ</a></li> <li>Georgian: please add this translation if you can</li> <li>German: <a href="/wiki/absteigen#German" title="absteigen">absteigen</a> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/absteigen" class="extiw" title="de:absteigen">(de)</a>, <a href="/wiki/herabsteigen#German" title="herabsteigen">herabsteigen</a>, <a href="/wiki/herunterkommen#German" title="herunterkommen">herunterkommen</a> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/herunterkommen" class="extiw" title="de:herunterkommen">(de)</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=niedergehen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="niedergehen (page does not exist)">niedergehen</a> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/niedergehen" class="extiw" title="de:niedergehen">(de)</a></li> <li>Greek: <a href="/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%89#Greek" title="κατεβαίνω">κατεβαίνω</a> <a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%89" class="extiw" title="el:κατεβαίνω">(el)</a> (katevaíno) <dl><dd>Ancient: <a href="/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="καταβαίνω">καταβαίνω</a> (katabaínō)</dd></dl></li> <li>Hebrew: <a href="/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%93#Hebrew" title="ירד">יָרַד</a> <a href="https://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%93" class="extiw" title="he:ירד">(he)</a> (yarád)</li> <li>Hindi: <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE#Hindi" title="उतरना">उतरना</a> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE" class="extiw" title="hi:उतरना">(hi)</a> (utarnā)</li> <li>Hungarian: <a href="/wiki/lemegy#Hungarian" title="lemegy">lemegy</a> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/lemegy" class="extiw" title="hu:lemegy">(hu)</a></li> <li>Ido: <a href="/wiki/decensar#Ido" title="decensar">decensar</a> <a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/decensar" class="extiw" title="io:decensar">(io)</a></li> <li>Indonesian: <a href="/wiki/turun#Indonesian" title="turun">turun</a> <a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/turun" class="extiw" title="id:turun">(id)</a></li> <li>Irish: <a href="/wiki/%C3%ADsligh#Irish" title="ísligh">ísligh</a></li> <li>Italian: <a href="/wiki/discendere#Italian" title="discendere">discendere</a> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/discendere" class="extiw" title="it:discendere">(it)</a>, <a href="/wiki/scendere#Italian" title="scendere">scendere</a> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/scendere" class="extiw" title="it:scendere">(it)</a></li> <li>Japanese: <a href="/wiki/%E9%99%8D%E4%B8%8B%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B#Japanese" class="mw-redirect" title="降下する">降下する</a> (こうかする, kōkasuru), <a href="/wiki/%E9%99%8D%E3%82%8A%E3%82%8B#Japanese" title="降りる">降りる</a> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%99%8D%E3%82%8A%E3%82%8B" class="extiw" title="ja:降りる">(ja)</a> (おりる, oriru)</li> <li>Javanese: <a href="/wiki/mudhun#Javanese" title="mudhun">mudhun</a> <a href="https://jv.wiktionary.org/wiki/mudhun" class="extiw" title="jv:mudhun">(jv)</a></li> <li>Khmer: <a href="/wiki/%E1%9E%85%E1%9E%BB%E1%9F%87#Khmer" title="ចុះ">ចុះ</a> <a href="https://km.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%9E%85%E1%9E%BB%E1%9F%87" class="extiw" title="km:ចុះ">(km)</a> (coh)</li> <li>Kituba: <a href="/wiki/kita#Kituba" title="kita">kita</a>, <a href="/wiki/kukita#Kituba" title="kukita">kukita</a></li> <li>Korean: <a href="/wiki/%EB%82%B4%EB%A6%AC%EB%8B%A4#Korean" title="내리다">내리다</a> <a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EB%82%B4%EB%A6%AC%EB%8B%A4" class="extiw" title="ko:내리다">(ko)</a> (naerida), <a href="/wiki/%EB%82%B4%EB%A0%A4%EC%98%A4%EB%8B%A4#Korean" title="내려오다">내려오다</a> <a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EB%82%B4%EB%A0%A4%EC%98%A4%EB%8B%A4" class="extiw" title="ko:내려오다">(ko)</a> (naeryeooda) (come down), <a href="/wiki/%EB%82%B4%EB%A0%A4%EA%B0%80%EB%8B%A4#Korean" title="내려가다">내려가다</a> <a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EB%82%B4%EB%A0%A4%EA%B0%80%EB%8B%A4" class="extiw" title="ko:내려가다">(ko)</a> (naeryeogada) (go down)</li> <li>Lao: <a href="/wiki/%E0%BA%A5%E0%BA%BB%E0%BA%87#Lao" title="ລົງ">ລົງ</a> (long)</li> <li>Latin: <a href="/wiki/descendo#Latin" title="descendo">descendō</a></li> <li>Lingala: <a href="/wiki/kita#Lingala" title="kita">kita</a></li> <li>Lombard: <a href="/wiki/and%C3%A0#Lombard" title="andà">andà</a> <a href="https://lmo.wiktionary.org/wiki/and%C3%A0" class="extiw" title="lmo:andà">(lmo)</a> <a href="/wiki/gi%C3%B2#Lombard" title="giò">giò</a> <a href="https://lmo.wiktionary.org/wiki/gi%C3%B2" class="extiw" title="lmo:giò">(lmo)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li> <li>Malay: <a href="/wiki/turun#Malay" title="turun">turun</a> <a href="https://ms.wiktionary.org/wiki/turun" class="extiw" title="ms:turun">(ms)</a></li> <li>Maltese: <a href="/wiki/ni%C5%BCel#Maltese" title="niżel">niżel</a></li> <li>Maore Comorian: <a href="/wiki/shuka#Maore_Comorian" title="shuka">ushuka</a></li> <li>Maori: <a href="/wiki/makere#Maori" title="makere">makere</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=marere&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="marere (page does not exist)">marere</a></li> <li>Norman: <a href="/wiki/d%27scendre#Norman" title="d'scendre">d'scendre</a></li> <li>Occitan: <a href="/w/index.php?title=desc%C3%A9nder&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="descénder (page does not exist)">descénder</a>, <a href="/wiki/descendre#Occitan" title="descendre">descendre</a> <a href="https://oc.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendre" class="extiw" title="oc:descendre">(oc)</a>, <a href="/wiki/davalar#Occitan" title="davalar">davalar</a> <a href="https://oc.wiktionary.org/wiki/davalar" class="extiw" title="oc:davalar">(oc)</a></li> <li>Oromo: <a href="/wiki/bu%27uu#Oromo" title="bu'uu">bu'uu</a></li> <li>Polish: <a href="/wiki/schodzi%C4%87#Polish" title="schodzić">schodzić</a> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/schodzi%C4%87" class="extiw" title="pl:schodzić">(pl)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/zej%C5%9B%C4%87#Polish" title="zejść">zejść</a> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/zej%C5%9B%C4%87" class="extiw" title="pl:zejść">(pl)</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/zni%C5%BCa%C4%87#Polish" title="zniżać">zniżać się</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/zni%C5%BCy%C4%87#Polish" title="zniżyć">zniżyć się</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr></li> <li>Portuguese: <a href="/wiki/descender#Portuguese" title="descender">descender</a> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/descender" class="extiw" title="pt:descender">(pt)</a>, <a href="/wiki/baixar#Portuguese" title="baixar">baixar</a> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/baixar" class="extiw" title="pt:baixar">(pt)</a>, <a href="/wiki/descer#Portuguese" title="descer">descer</a> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/descer" class="extiw" title="pt:descer">(pt)</a></li> <li>Quechua: <a href="/wiki/bahay#Quechua" title="bahay">bahay</a>, <a href="/wiki/uray#Quechua" title="uray">uray</a></li> <li>Romanian: <a href="/wiki/cobor%C3%AE#Romanian" title="coborî">coborî</a> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/cobor%C3%AE" class="extiw" title="ro:coborî">(ro)</a></li> <li>Russian: <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F#Russian" title="спускаться">спуска́ться</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:спускаться">(ru)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (spuskátʹsja), <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F#Russian" title="спуститься">спусти́ться</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:спуститься">(ru)</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (spustítʹsja), <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian" title="сходить">сходи́ть</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C" class="extiw" title="ru:сходить">(ru)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (sxodítʹ), <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8#Russian" title="сойти">сойти́</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:сойти">(ru)</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (sojtí)</li> <li>Serbo-Croatian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8#Serbo-Croatian" title="силазити">сѝлазити</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%9B%D0%B8#Serbo-Croatian" title="сићи">си̑ћи</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8#Serbo-Croatian" title="спуштати">спу́штати се</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8#Serbo-Croatian" title="спустити">спу̀стити се</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr></dd> <dd>Roman: <a href="/wiki/silaziti#Serbo-Croatian" title="silaziti">sìlaziti</a> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/silaziti" class="extiw" title="sh:silaziti">(sh)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/si%C4%87i#Serbo-Croatian" title="sići">sȋći</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/spu%C5%A1tati#Serbo-Croatian" title="spuštati">spúštati se</a> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/spu%C5%A1tati" class="extiw" title="sh:spuštati">(sh)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr>, <a href="/wiki/spustiti#Serbo-Croatian" title="spustiti">spùstiti se</a> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/spustiti" class="extiw" title="sh:spustiti">(sh)</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr></dd></dl></li> <li>Sidamo: <a href="/wiki/dirra#Sidamo" title="dirra">dirra</a></li> <li>Spanish: <a href="/wiki/descender#Spanish" title="descender">descender</a> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/descender" class="extiw" title="es:descender">(es)</a>, <a href="/wiki/bajar#Spanish" title="bajar">bajar</a> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/bajar" class="extiw" title="es:bajar">(es)</a></li> <li>Swahili: <a href="/wiki/shuka#Swahili" title="shuka">kushuka</a> <a href="https://sw.wiktionary.org/wiki/shuka" class="extiw" title="sw:shuka">(sw)</a></li> <li>Tagalog: <a href="/wiki/bumaba#Tagalog" title="bumaba">bumaba</a></li> <li>Tamil: <a href="/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81#Tamil" title="இறங்கு">இறங்கு</a> <a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81" class="extiw" title="ta:இறங்கு">(ta)</a> (iṟaṅku)</li> <li>Tetum: <a href="/wiki/tun#Tetum" title="tun">tun</a></li> <li>Thai: <a href="/wiki/%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%87#Thai" title="ลง">ลง</a> <a href="https://th.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%87" class="extiw" title="th:ลง">(th)</a> (long)</li> <li>Tocharian B: <a href="/wiki/k%C4%81rp-#Tocharian_B" title="kārp-">kārp-</a></li> <li>Turkish: <a href="/wiki/al%C3%A7almak#Turkish" title="alçalmak">alçalmak</a> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/al%C3%A7almak" class="extiw" title="tr:alçalmak">(tr)</a>, <a href="/wiki/inmek#Turkish" title="inmek">inmek</a> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/inmek" class="extiw" title="tr:inmek">(tr)</a></li> <li>Ugaritic: <a href="/wiki/%F0%90%8E%8A%F0%90%8E%97%F0%90%8E%84#Ugaritic" title="𐎊𐎗𐎄">𐎊𐎗𐎄</a> (yrd)</li> <li>Ukrainian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8F&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="спускатися (page does not exist)">спуска́тися</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (spuskátysja), <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8F&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="спуститися (page does not exist)">спусти́тися</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (spustýtysja)</li> <li>Vietnamese: <a href="/wiki/xu%E1%BB%91ng#Vietnamese" title="xuống">xuống</a> <a href="https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/xu%E1%BB%91ng" class="extiw" title="vi:xuống">(vi)</a></li> <li>Walloon: <a href="/wiki/dischinde#Walloon" title="dischinde">dischinde</a> <a href="https://wa.wiktionary.org/wiki/dischinde" class="extiw" title="wa:dischinde">(wa)</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=adschinde&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="adschinde (page does not exist)">adschinde</a> <a href="https://wa.wiktionary.org/wiki/adschinde" class="extiw" title="wa:adschinde">(wa)</a></li> <li>Welsh: <a href="/wiki/disgyn#Welsh" title="disgyn">disgyn</a> <a href="https://cy.wiktionary.org/wiki/disgyn" class="extiw" title="cy:disgyn">(cy)</a></li> <li>West Frisian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%B4fdale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ôfdale (page does not exist)">ôfdale</a></li> <li>Yagnobi: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D4%9D%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ԝесак (page does not exist)">ԝесак</a></li> <li>Yiddish: <a href="/wiki/%D7%90%D6%B7%D7%A8%D7%90%D6%B8%D7%A4%D6%BC%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F#Yiddish" title="אַראָפּגיין">אַראָפּגיין</a> (aropgeyn)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_zodiac_sign:_to_move_away_from_the_zenith_towards_the_horizon;_of_a_planet:_to_move_to_a_place_where_it_has_less_astrological_significance"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskea#Finnish" title="laskea">laskea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskea" class="extiw" title="fi:laskea">(fi)</a>, <a href="/wiki/laskeutua#Finnish" title="laskeutua">laskeutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskeutua" class="extiw" title="fi:laskeutua">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_celestial_body:_to_move_away_from_the_zenith_towards_the_horizon;_to_move_towards_the_south"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to move towards the south</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to move towards the south"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskeutua#Finnish" title="laskeutua">laskeutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskeutua" class="extiw" title="fi:laskeutua">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_body_part:_to_move_downwards,_especially_during_development_of_the_embryo;_specifically,_of_the_testes_of_a_mammal:_to_move_downwards_from_the_abdominal_cavity_into_the_scrotum"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskeutua#Finnish" title="laskeutua">laskeutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskeutua" class="extiw" title="fi:laskeutua">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_slope_or_stretch_downwards"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to slope or stretch downwards</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to slope or stretch downwards"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskea#Finnish" title="laskea">laskea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskea" class="extiw" title="fi:laskea">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame" id="Translations-to_alight_from_a_carriage,_a_horse,_etc.;_to_disembark_from_a_vessel"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; to disembark from a vessel — see <a href="/wiki/alight#Translations" title="alight">alight</a>,‎ <a href="/wiki/disembark#Translations" title="disembark">disembark</a>,‎ <a href="/wiki/land#Translations" title="land">land</a></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_come_or_go_down,_or_reduce,_in_intensity_or_some_other_quality"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskea#Finnish" title="laskea">laskea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskea" class="extiw" title="fi:laskea">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-in_speech_or_writing:_to_proceed_from_one_matter_to_another;_to_pass_from_more_general_or_important_to_specific_or_less_important_matters_to_be_considered"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">in speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="in speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/menn%C3%A4#Finnish" title="mennä">mennä</a> <a href="/wiki/yksityiskohtiin#Finnish" title="yksityiskohtiin">yksityiskohtiin</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_situation:_to_become_worse"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a situation: to become worse — see <a href="/wiki/decline#Translations" title="decline">decline</a>,‎ <a href="/wiki/deteriorate#Translations" title="deteriorate">deteriorate</a></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_make_an_attack_or_incursion,_from_or_as_if_from_a_vantage_ground"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Bulgarian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B2%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D1%81%D0%B5&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="нахвърлям се (page does not exist)">нахвърлям се</a> (nahvǎrljam se), <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="налитам (page does not exist)">налитам</a> <a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC" class="extiw" title="bg:налитам">(bg)</a> (nalitam)</li> <li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskeutua#Finnish" title="laskeutua">laskeutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskeutua" class="extiw" title="fi:laskeutua">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li> <li>Russian: <a href="/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian" title="нападать">напада́ть</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C" class="extiw" title="ru:нападать">(ru)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (napadátʹ), <a href="/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian" title="напасть">напа́сть</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C" class="extiw" title="ru:напасть">(ru)</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (napástʹ), <a href="/wiki/%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F#Russian" title="обрушиваться">обру́шиваться</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:обрушиваться">(ru)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (obrúšivatʹsja), <a href="/wiki/%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F#Russian" title="обрушиться">обру́шиться</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:обрушиться">(ru)</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (obrúšitʹsja)</li> <li>Turkish: <a href="/wiki/sald%C4%B1rmak#Turkish" title="saldırmak">saldırmak</a> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/sald%C4%B1rmak" class="extiw" title="tr:saldırmak">(tr)</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%BC%C5%9F%C3%BC%C5%9Fmek#Turkish" title="üşüşmek">üşüşmek</a> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BC%C5%9F%C3%BC%C5%9Fmek" class="extiw" title="tr:üşüşmek">(tr)</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_arrive_suddenly_or_unexpectedly,_especially_in_a_manner_that_causes_disruption_or_inconvenience"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/langeta#Finnish" title="langeta">langeta</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/langeta" class="extiw" title="fi:langeta">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_come_down_to_a_humbler_or_less_fortunate,_or_a_worse_or_less_virtuous,_rank_or_state"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also <a href="/wiki/abase#Translations" title="abase">abase</a>,‎ <a href="/wiki/condescend#Translations" title="condescend">condescend</a></div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Bulgarian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D1%81%D0%B5&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="снижавам се (page does not exist)">снижавам се</a> (snižavam se)</li> <li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/alentua#Finnish" title="alentua">alentua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/alentua" class="extiw" title="fi:alentua">(fi)</a>, <a href="/wiki/laskeutua#Finnish" title="laskeutua">laskeutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskeutua" class="extiw" title="fi:laskeutua">(fi)</a></li> <li>Irish: <a href="/wiki/%C3%ADsligh#Irish" title="ísligh">ísligh</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_mentally_enter_a_state_of_(deep)_meditation_or_thought"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought — see also <a href="/wiki/retire#Translations" title="retire">retire</a></div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/vajota#Finnish" title="vajota">vajota</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/vajota" class="extiw" title="fi:vajota">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_sequence_or_series:_to_proceed_from_higher_to_lower_values"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/laskea#Finnish" title="laskea">laskea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskea" class="extiw" title="fi:laskea">(fi)</a>, <a href="/wiki/pienet%C3%A4#Finnish" title="pienetä">pienetä</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/pienet%C3%A4" class="extiw" title="fi:pienetä">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_pass_from_a_higher_to_a_lower_note_or_tone;_to_fall_in_pitch"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/alentua#Finnish" title="alentua">alentua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/alentua" class="extiw" title="fi:alentua">(fi)</a>, <a href="/wiki/laskea#Finnish" title="laskea">laskea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskea" class="extiw" title="fi:laskea">(fi)</a>, <a href="/wiki/laskeutua#Finnish" title="laskeutua">laskeutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/laskeutua" class="extiw" title="fi:laskeutua">(fi)</a>, <a href="/wiki/pudota#Finnish" title="pudota">pudota</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/pudota" class="extiw" title="fi:pudota">(fi)</a></li> <li>French: <a href="/wiki/descendre#French" title="descendre">descendre</a> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendre" class="extiw" title="fr:descendre">(fr)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_characteristic:_to_be_transmitted_from_a_parent_to_a_child"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>German: <a href="/wiki/abstammen#German" title="abstammen">abstammen</a> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstammen" class="extiw" title="de:abstammen">(de)</a></li> <li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/kulkea#Finnish" title="kulkea">kulkea</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kulkea" class="extiw" title="fi:kulkea">(fi)</a>, <a href="/wiki/periyty%C3%A4#Finnish" title="periytyä">periytyä</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/periyty%C3%A4" class="extiw" title="fi:periytyä">(fi)</a></li> <li>Irish: <a href="/wiki/s%C3%ADolaigh#Irish" title="síolaigh">síolaigh</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_come_down_or_derive_from_an_ancestor_or_ancestral_stock,_or_a_source"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also <a href="/wiki/originate#Translations" title="originate">originate</a>,‎ <a href="/wiki/stem#Translations" title="stem">stem</a></div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Bulgarian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D1%81%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="предавам се по наследство (page does not exist)">предавам се по наследство</a> (predavam se po nasledstvo), <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BC#Bulgarian" title="произлизам">произлизам</a> <a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BC" class="extiw" title="bg:произлизам">(bg)</a> (proizlizam)</li> <li>Dutch: <a href="/wiki/afstammen#Dutch" title="afstammen">afstammen</a> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/afstammen" class="extiw" title="nl:afstammen">(nl)</a></li> <li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/periyty%C3%A4#Finnish" title="periytyä">periytyä</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/periyty%C3%A4" class="extiw" title="fi:periytyä">(fi)</a>, <a href="/wiki/polveutua#Finnish" title="polveutua">polveutua</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/polveutua" class="extiw" title="fi:polveutua">(fi)</a></li> <li>Irish: <a href="/wiki/%C3%ADsligh#Irish" title="ísligh">ísligh</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li> <li>Northwestern Ojibwa: <a href="/wiki/ondoode#Northwestern_Ojibwa" title="ondoode">ondoode</a></li> <li>Romanian: <a href="/wiki/descinde#Romanian" title="descinde">descinde</a> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/descinde" class="extiw" title="ro:descinde">(ro)</a>, <a href="/wiki/proveni#Romanian" title="proveni">proveni</a> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/proveni" class="extiw" title="ro:proveni">(ro)</a></li> <li>Russian: <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian" title="происходить">происходи́ть</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C" class="extiw" title="ru:происходить">(ru)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (proisxodítʹ), <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8#Russian" title="произойти">произойти́</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:произойти">(ru)</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (proizojtí)</li> <li>Serbo-Croatian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%98%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="потјецати (page does not exist)">по̀тјецати</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (Bosnia, Croatia), <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8#Serbo-Croatian" title="потицати">по̀тицати</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (Serbia)</dd> <dd>Roman: <a href="/wiki/potjecati#Serbo-Croatian" title="potjecati">pòtjecati</a> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/potjecati" class="extiw" title="sh:potjecati">(sh)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (Bosnia, Croatia), <a href="/wiki/poticati#Serbo-Croatian" title="poticati">pòticati</a> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/poticati" class="extiw" title="sh:poticati">(sh)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (Serbia)</dd></dl></li> <li>Spanish: <a href="/wiki/descender#Spanish" title="descender">descender</a> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/descender" class="extiw" title="es:descender">(es)</a></li> <li>Turkish: <a href="/w/index.php?title=soyundan_gelmek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="soyundan gelmek (page does not exist)">soyundan gelmek</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_property,_a_right,_etc.:_to_pass_down_to_a_generation,_a_person,_etc.,_by_inheritance"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <a href="/wiki/periyty%C3%A4#Finnish" title="periytyä">periytyä</a> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/periyty%C3%A4" class="extiw" title="fi:periytyä">(fi)</a></li> <li>Macedonian: please add this translation if you can</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> descend (plural <a href="/wiki/descends#English" title="descends">descends</a>) <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a>) Synonym of <a href="/wiki/descent#English" title="descent">descent</a> (“<a href="/wiki/instance#Noun" title="instance">instance</a> of <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Verb">descending</a>; <a href="/wiki/sloping#Adjective" title="sloping">sloping</a> <a href="/wiki/incline#Noun" title="incline">incline</a> or <a href="/wiki/passage#Noun" title="passage">passage</a>; <a href="/wiki/way#Noun" title="way">way</a> <a href="/wiki/down#Preposition" title="down">down</a>; <a href="/wiki/decline#Noun" title="decline">decline</a>, etc.”) <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1607, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_Markham" class="extiw" title="w:Gervase Markham">Gervase Markham</a>, “Of a Horses Labour or Exercise, and how He shall be Ordered when He is Iourneyed”, in <cite>Cauelarice, or The English Horseman: [<span title="Contayning All the Arte of Horse-manship, as much as is Necessary for any Man to Understand, whether He be Horse-breeder, Horse-ryder, Horse-hunter, Horse-runner, Horse-ambler, Horse-farrier, Horse-keeper, Coachman, Smith, or Sadler. Together, with the Discouery of the Subtill Trade or Mistery of Horse-coursers, & an Explanatiõ of the Excellency of a Horses Understãding, or How to Teach Them to Doe Trickes like Bankes His Curtall: And that Horses may be Made to Drawe Drie-foot like a Hound. Secrets before Unpublished, & now Carefully Set Down for the Profit of this Whole Nation: By Geruase Markham.">…]</cite>, London: […] [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Allde" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Allde">Edward Allde</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">W[illiam] Jaggard</a>] for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_White_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:Edward White (printer)">Edward White</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1203228349">→OCLC</a>, 5th book, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_cavelarice-or-the-engli_markham-gervase_1607/page/n542/mode/1up">page 33</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[I]t ſhall be good if in your iourney you come to the deſcend of anye great Hil, to light from your Horſes backe, and to vvalke dovvne the hill a foote, […]</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations_2">Translations</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Translations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame" id="Translations-synonym_of_descent"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">synonym of descent — see <a href="/wiki/descent#Translations" title="descent">descent</a></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1"> ^ </a> “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED11268">dē̆scenden, v.</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English Dictionary">MED Online</a></cite>, Ann Arbor, Mich.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" class="extiw" title="w:University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>, 2007. </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2"> ^ </a> “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/7315183837">descend, v.</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Electronic_versions" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford English Dictionary">OED Online</a> <a href="/wiki/File:Lock-red.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Paid subscription required"><img alt="Paid subscription required" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/8px-Lock-red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/12px-Lock-red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/16px-Lock-red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="813" /></a>⁠</cite>, Oxford: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, March 2024; “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/descend">descend, v.</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico" class="extiw" title="w:Lexico">Lexico</a></cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary.com" class="extiw" title="w:Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, 2019–2022. </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3"> ^ </a> “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/4491771519">descend, n.</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Electronic_versions" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford English Dictionary">OED Online</a> <a href="/wiki/File:Lock-red.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Paid subscription required"><img alt="Paid subscription required" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/8px-Lock-red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/12px-Lock-red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/16px-Lock-red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="813" /></a>⁠</cite>, Oxford: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, July 2023. </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/descend" title="w:descend"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/15px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/23px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/30px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/descend" class="extiw" title="w:descend">descent (disambiguation)</a> on Wikipedia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/descend" class="extiw" title="w:descend">Wikipedia </a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Anagrams">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/scended#English" title="scended">scended</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="French">French</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: French">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_2">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=descend&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410"><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio:</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="LL-Q150_(fra)-Pamputt-descend.wav" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Pamputt-descend.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Pamputt-descend.wav.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Pamputt-descend.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Pamputt-descend.wav.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Pamputt-descend.wav" type="audio/wav" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Pamputt-descend.wav" title="File:LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-descend.wav">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410"><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_French" class="extiw" title="w:Canadian French">Canada</a>):</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_2" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="LL-Q150_(fra)-DenisdeShawi-descend.wav" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-descend.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-descend.wav.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-descend.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-descend.wav.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source 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