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Definition of Descent
De`scent´ | n. | 1. | The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower. | | 2. | Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. | | 2. | Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. | | 3. | 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. | | 5. | (Law) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. | | 6. | Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent. | | 7. | That which is descended; descendants; issue. | | 8. | A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation. | | 9. | Lowest place; extreme downward place. |
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