Descent ¹

Definition: The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

Descent ²

Definition: Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

Descent ³

Definition: 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.

Descent ⁴

Definition: Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

Descent ⁵

Definition: Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

Descent ⁶

Definition: Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

Descent ⁷

Definition: That which is descended; descendants; issue.

Descent ⁸

Definition: A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

Descent ⁹

Definition: Lowest place; extreme downward place.

Descent ¹⁰

Definition: A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

descent ¹¹

Definition: the act of changing your location in a downward direction

descent ¹²

Definition: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"

descent ¹³

Definition: a movement downward

descent ¹⁴

Definition: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

descent ¹⁵

Definition: a downward slope or bend

descent ¹⁶

Definition: the kinship relation between an individual and the individual''s progenitors