Vocabulary : Descanted to Descendible
Descanted : of DescantDescanter : One who descants.
Descanting : of Descant
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;
Descendant : Descendent. ;; One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
