descendible
Variant of descend
descend
Definition
de·scend (dē send′, di-)
intransitive verb
- to move from a higher to a lower place; come down or go down
- to pass from an earlier to a later time, from greater to less, from general to particular, etc.
- to slope or extend downward
- to come down (from a source, as from an ancestor): usually with auxiliary be he is descended from pioneers
- to pass by inheritance or heredity the estate descended to the nephew
- to lower oneself or stoop (to some act)
- to make a sudden attack, raid, or visit (on or upon)
- Astron. to move toward the horizon
- Music to move down the scale
Etymology: ME descenden < OFr descendre < L descendere, to climb down, fall < de-, down + scandere, to climb < ? IE base *skend-, *skand-, to leap > Gr skandalon (> scandal), Sans Skandati, (he) leaps
transitive verb
to move, step, or pass down or down along
Browse dictionary entries near descendible
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- descramble
- descrambled
- descrambler
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- describable
- describe
- described
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