To pass from a higher to a
lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by
falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline
downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
To enter mentally; to retire.
To make an attack, or incursion, as if
from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with
on or upon.
To come down to a lower, less fortunate,
humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase
one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
To pass from the more general or important
to the particular or less important matters to be
considered.
To come down, as from a source, original,
or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission;
to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend
from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
To move toward the south,
or to the southward.
To fall in pitch; to pass
from a higher to a lower tone.
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