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descend

verb
/dɪˈsɛnd/UK/dəˈsɛnd/US

Etymology

PIE word *de The verb is derived from Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), from Anglo-Norman descendere, descendre, and Old French descendere, descendre (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”) (modern French descendre), and from their etymon Latin dēscendere, the present active infinitive of dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), from de- (prefix meaning ‘from; down from’) + scandō (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”)). The noun is derived from the verb.

  1. derived from *skend-✻ — “to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”
  2. derived from dēscendere
  3. derived from descendere
  4. derived from descendere
  5. inherited from descenden — “to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”

Definitions

  1. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.

    • they descended the river in boats
    • to descend a ladder
    • The noble prince descended to one knee to ask for the princess’s hand in marriage.

  2. Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.

  3. Synonym of descent (“instance of descending

    Synonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”).

    • [I]t ſhall be good if in your iourney you come to the deſcend of anye great Hil, to light from your Horſes backe, and to vvalke dovvne the hill a foote, […]

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Derived

descendable, descendible, descendance, descendancy, descended, descendence, descendency, descender, descending, descend into the arena, descend on, descend upon, maldescended, redescend, undescended

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at descend. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at descend. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at descend

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA