Definition of descent

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Descent (n.) 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..

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Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Growing raw, sore, or painful again..
Gradual :: Gradual (n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline..
Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form..
Avatar :: Avatar (n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu..
Descent :: Descent (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
Perquisite :: Perquisite (n.) Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent..
Proneness :: Proneness (n.) Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill..
Traduction :: Traduction (n.) Derivation by descent; propagation.
Boer :: Boer (n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.
Entail :: Entail (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.
Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..
Declension :: Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
Pedigree :: Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
Agnatic :: Agnatic (a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.
Waterfall :: Waterfall (n.) A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract..
Downward :: Downward (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent..
Tapetum :: Tapetum (n.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid..
Kin :: Kin (n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent..
Viridescent :: Viridescent (a.) Slightly green; greenish.
Glowlamp :: Glowlamp (n.) An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a..
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