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31descend — [dɪˈsend] verb 1) [I/T] formal to go down something such as a mountain, a slope, or stairs Ant: ascend 2) [I] to move closer to the ground from the air or from a high point 3) be descended from to be related to a person or animal that lived long… …
32descend — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French descendre, from Latin descendere, from de + scandere to climb more at scan Date: 13th century intransitive verb 1. to pass from a higher place or level to a lower one < descended from the platform …
33descend — verb [dɪˈsend/ a) 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 rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.… …
34descend — [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’,… …
35descend — [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’,… …
36descend — de·scend di send vi to pass from a higher place or level to a lower one <normally the testicle descends into the scrotum between the seventh and ninth month in utero (Therapeutic Notes)> …
37descend — de·scend || dɪ send v. go down; be handed down (from generation to generation); lower oneself morally …
38descend — To pass by succession; as when the estate vests by operation of law in the heirs immediately upon the death of the ancestor. The term, as used in some statutes, includes an acquisition by devise. Cordon v. Gregg, 164 Or. 306, 101 P.2d 414, 415.… …
39descend — To pass by succession; as when the estate vests by operation of law in the heirs immediately upon the death of the ancestor. The term, as used in some statutes, includes an acquisition by devise. Cordon v. Gregg, 164 Or. 306, 101 P.2d 414, 415.… …
40Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes — George Molland Early in the nineteenth century John Playfair wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica a long article entitled ‘Dissertation; exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematics and Physical Science, since the Revival of Letters …
