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DESCEND, L. To climb.
1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place to move, come or go downwards to fall to sink to run or flow down applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on the feet, on wheels, or by falling. A torrent descends from a mountain.
The rains descended, and the floods came. Matthew 7 .
2. To go down, or to enter.
He shall descend into battle and perish. Sam. 26.
3. To come suddenly to fall violently.
And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.
4. To go in to enter.
He, with honest meditations fed, into himself descended.
5. To rush to invade, as an enemy.
The Grecian fleet descending on the town.
6. To proceed from a source or original to be derived. The beggar may descend from a prince, and the prince, from a beggar.
7. To proceed, as from father to son to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance. Thus, an inheritance descends to the son or next of kin a crown descends to the heir.
8. To pass from general to particular considerations as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
9. To come down from an elevated or honorable station in a figurative sense. Flavius is an honorable man he cannot descend to acts of meanness.
10. In music, to fall in sound to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.
DESCEND, To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity as, to descend a hill to descend an inclined plain. But this may be considered as elliptical on or along being understood.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Descend'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/descend.html.
