Descent
The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
That which is descended; descendants; issue.
A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
Lowest place; extreme downward place.
A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
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Descent Quotations
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
Marco Rubio
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Virgil
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
Arthur Erickson
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.
William Henry Ashley
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Timothy Garton Ash
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
Tia Carrere
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
Simon Newcomb
Descent Translations
descent in Dutch is afdaling
descent in German is Abstieg {m}
descent in Latin is progenies, successio
descent in Portuguese is descida
descent in Spanish is bajada, descenso
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