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 De·scend v. i. [imp. & p. p. Descended; p. pr. & vb. n. Descending.]
 1. 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.
    The rain descended, and the floods came.   --Matt. vii. 25.
    We will here descend to matters of later date.   --Fuller.
 2. To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]
 [He] with holiest meditations fed,
 Into himself descended.   --Milton.
 3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
    And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.   --Pope.
 4. 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.
 5. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
 6. 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.
 7. Anat. To move toward the south, or to the southward.
 8. Mus. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.