Definition of Descend

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Descend

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.

To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.

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Descend Quotations

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
Annie Besant

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
William Hazlitt

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Vaclav Havel

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille

Descend Translations

descend in Afrikaans is daal, afgaan
descend in Dutch is naar beneden gaan, afdalen
descend in German is abstammen, Abstieg {m}, herunterkommen
descend in Norwegian is stige ned, stamme fra
descend in Spanish is proceder, bajar, descender
descend in Swedish is minska, stiga ned

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