Descend
Descend , intransitive verb
[French descendre, Latin descendere, descensum; de- + scandere to climb. See Scan.]
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.
We will here descend to matters of later date.
2.
To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]
[He] with holiest meditations fed,
Into himself descended.
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.
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.
(Anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
8.
(Music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Descend , transitive verb
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
But never tears his cheek descended.