descend

descend [dē send′, disend′]

vi.

[ME descenden < OFr descendre < L descendere, to climb down, fall < de-, down + scandere, to climb < ? IE base * skend-, * skand-, to leap > Gr skandalon (> SCANDAL), Sans Skandati, (he) leaps]

1. to move from a higher to a lower place; come down or go down

2. to pass from an earlier to a later time, from greater to less, from general to particular, etc.

3. to slope or extend downward

4. to come down (from a source, as from an ancestor): usually with auxiliary be [he is descended from pioneers]

5. to pass by inheritance or heredity [the estate descended to the nephew]

6. to lower oneself or stoop (to some act)

7. to make a sudden attack, raid, or visit (on or upon)

8. Astron. to move toward the horizon

9. Music to move down the scale

vt.

to move, step, or pass down or down along

descendible

adj.