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Meaning of DESCENT in English

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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    Meaning of DESCENT in English

    • 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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