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Definition of descent
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of descent is as below...
Descent
(n.)
Inclination
downward;
a
descending
way;
inclined
or
sloping
surface;
declivity;
slope;
as, a steep
descent..
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Eurasian
::
Eurasian
(a.) Of
European
and
Asiatic
descent;
of or
pertaining
to both
Europe
and Asia; as, the great
Eurasian
plain..
Grand
::
Grand
(superl.)
Standing
in the
second
or some more
remote
degree
of
parentage
or
descent;
--
generalIy
used in
composition;
as,
grandfather,
grandson,
grandchild,
etc..
Descent
::
Descent
(n.)
Transmission
of an
estate
by
inheritance,
usually,
but not
necessarily,
in the
descending
line; title to
inherit
an
estate
by
reason
of
consanguinity..
Entailment
::
Entailment
(n.) The act of
entailing
or of
giving,
as an
estate,
and
directing
the mode of
descent..
Scarp
::
Scarp (n.) A steep
descent
or
declivity.
Creole
::
Creole
(n.) One born of
European
parents
in the
American
colonies
of
France
or Spain or in the
States
which were once such
colonies,
esp. a
person
of
French
or
Spanish
descent,
who is a
native
inhabitant
of
Louisiana,
or one of the
States
adjoining,
bordering
on the Gulf of of
Mexico..
Iridescent
::
Iridescent
(a.)
Having
colors
like the
rainbow;
exhibiting
a play of
changeable
colors;
nacreous;
prismatic;
as,
iridescent
glass..
Genealogize
::
Genealogize
(v. i.) To
investigate,
or
relate
the
history
of,
descents..
Homogenous
::
Homogenous
(a.)
Having
a
resemblance
in
structure,
due to
descent
from a
common
progenitor
with
subsequent
modification;
homogenetic;
--
applied
both to
animals
and
plants.
See
Homoplastic..
Whitsunday
::
Whitsunday
(n.) The
seventh
Sunday,
and the
fiftieth
day, after
Easter;
a
festival
of the
church
in
commemoration
of the
descent
of the Holy
Spirit
on the day of
Pentecost;
Pentecost;
-- so
called,
it is said,
because,
in the
primitive
church,
those who had been newly
baptized
appeared
at
church
between
Easter
and
Pentecost
in white
garments..
Blood
::
Blood (n.)
Descent;
lineage;
especially,
honorable
birth;
the
highest
royal
lineage..
Brachystochrone
::
Brachystochrone
(n.) A
curve,
in which a body,
starting
from a given
point,
and
descending
solely
by the force of
gravity,
will reach
another
given point in a
shorter
time than it could by any other path. This curve of
quickest
descent,
as it is
sometimes
called,
is, in a
vacuum,
the same as the
cycloid..
Paternity
::
Paternity
(n.)
Derivation
or
descent
from a
father;
male
parentage;
as, the
paternity
of a
child..
Traduction
::
Traduction
(n.)
Derivation
by
descent;
propagation.
Descent
::
Descent
(n.)
Incursion;
sudden
attack;
especially,
hostile
invasion
from sea; -- often
followed
by upon or on; as, to make a
descent
upon the
enemy..
Kin
::
Kin (n.)
Relationship,
consanguinity,
or
affinity;
connection
by birth or
marriage;
kindred;
near
connection
or
alliance,
as of those
having
common
descent..
Of
::
Of
(prep.)
Denoting
that from which
anything
proceeds;
indicating
origin,
source,
descent,
and the like; as, he is of a race of
kings;
he is of noble
blood..
Boer
::
Boer (n.) A
colonist
or
farmer
in South
Africa
of Dutch
descent.
Quartering
::
Quartering
(n.) One of the
different
coats of arms
arranged
upon an
escutcheon,
denoting
the
descent
of the
bearer..
Illapse
::
Illapse
(v. i.) A
gliding
in; an
immisson
or
entrance
of one thing into
another;
also, a
sudden
descent
or
attack..
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