noun. The act or an instance of descending.

noun. undefined

noun. A way down.

noun. A downward incline or passage; a slope.

noun. Hereditary derivation; lineage.

noun. The fact or process of being derived or developing from a source.

noun. Transmission of property, especially real estate, to a hereditary heir by an intestate owner.

noun. A lowering or decline, as in status or level.

noun. A sudden visit or attack; an onslaught.

noun. The act of descending; the act of passing from a higher to a lower place by any form of motion.

noun. A downward slope or inclination; a declivity.

noun. A fall or decline from a higher to a lower state or station; declension; degradation.

noun. A sudden or hostile coming down upon a person, thing, or place; an incursion; an invasion; a sudden attack.

noun. In law, the passing of real property to the heir or heirs of one who dies without disposing of it by will; transmission by succession or inheritance; the hereditary devolution of real property either to a single heir at law (common in England) or to the nearest relatives in the same degree, whether in a descending, ascending, or collateral line.

noun. Genealogical extraction from an original or progenitor; lineage; pedigree; specifically, in biology, evolution; derivation: said of species, etc., as well as of individuals.

noun. A generation; a single degree in the scale of genealogy, traced from the common ancestor.

noun. Offspring; issue; descendants collectively.

noun. A rank; a step or degree.

noun. The lowest place.

noun. plural In fortification, a hole, vault, or hollow place made by undermining the ground.

noun. In music, a passing from a higher to a lower pitch.

noun. In logic, an inference from a proposition containing a higher term to a proposition containing a lower term.

noun. Debasement.

noun. Foray, raid.

noun. Generation, parentage, derivation.

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

noun. Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on.

noun. 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.

noun. Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

noun. Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

noun. Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope.

noun. That which is descended; descendants; issue.

noun. A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

noun. Lowest place; extreme downward place.

noun. A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

noun. An instance of descending

noun. A way down.

noun. A sloping passage or incline.

noun. Lineage or hereditary derivation

noun. A drop to a lower status or condition.

noun. a downward slope or bend

noun. the act of changing your location in a downward direction

noun. a movement downward

noun. properties attributable to your ancestry

noun. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

noun. the descendants of one individual

"Having at last found it, however, he forthwith began his descent; and here again he was disagreeably reminded of the much greater difficulty which is experienced in the _descent_ than in the _ascent_ of a cliff."

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angle of descent  collateral descent  descent cast  descent of bodies  descent of souls  

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Bendt  Brent  Gent  Ghent  Kent  

ancestry  ascent  birth  climb  conquest  

Brownian movement  Indian file  abasement  advance  affiliation