The act of descending, or
passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Incursion; sudden attack; especially,
hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or
on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
Progress downward, as in station, virtue,
as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state,
from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important,
from the better to the worse, etc.
Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure
by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
Transmission of an estate by
inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line;
title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
Inclination downward; a descending way;
inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep
descent.
That which is descended; descendants;
issue.
A step or remove downward in any scale of
gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a
generation.
Lowest place; extreme downward
place.
A passing from a
higher to a lower tone.
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