Descend

De`scend´

v. i.	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. [imp. & p. p. Descended; p. pr. & vb. n. Descending.] The rain descended, and the floods came. - Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. - Fuller.
	2.	To enter mentally; to retire. [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. - Milton.
	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. - Pope.
	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.	(Anat.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
	8.	(Mus.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
v. t.	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. - Byron.

Verb	1.	descend - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" Synonyms: come down, go down, fall Antonyms: ascend, go up - travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
	2.	descend - come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins" Synonyms: derive, come
	3.	descend - do something that one considers to be below one's dignity Synonyms: deign, condescend
	4.	descend - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" Synonyms: settle, fall