Descend /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Descended; p. pr. & vb. n. Descending

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. To move toward the south, or to the southward. (Anat.)
8. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. (Mus.)

1. 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.