descend

Verb

descend (third-person singular simple present descends, present participle descending, simple past and past participle descended)

1. (intransitive) 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 rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

2. (intransitive) To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]

[He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.

3. (intransitive) 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. Alexander Pope.

4. (intransitive) 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. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

6. (intransitive) 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. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.

8. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

9. (transitive) 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.
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Lysaker train station, Oslo November 2011