Condescendverb
(intransitive) To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
Descendverb
(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.’;
Condescendverb
(intransitive) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down (to someone).
Descendverb
To enter mentally; to retire.
Condescendverb
To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward (someone); to talk down to (someone).
Descendverb
or upon}} To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
Condescendverb
To consent, agree.
Descendverb
(intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself
‘he descended from his high estate’;
Condescendverb
To come down.
Descendverb
(intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
Condescendverb
To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
‘Can they think me so broken, so debasedWith corporal servitude, that my mind everWill condescend to such absurd commands?’; ‘Spain's mighty monarch,In gracious clemency, does condescend,On these conditions, to become your friend.’; ‘Those who thought they were honoring me by condescending to address a few words to me.’;
Descendverb
(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.
‘the beggar may descend from a prince’; ‘a crown descends to the heir’;
Condescendverb
To consent.
‘All parties willingly condescended heruento.’;
Descendverb
To move toward the south, or to the southward.
Condescendverb
behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
Descendverb
To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Condescendverb
do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Descendverb
(transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
‘they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder’;
Condescendverb
debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way;
‘I won't stoop to reading other people's mail’;
Descendverb
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 opposite of ascend.
‘The rain descended, and the floods came.’; ‘We will here descend to matters of later date.’;
Condescendverb
treat condescendingly
Descendverb
To enter mentally; to retire.
‘[He] with holiest meditations fed,Into himself descended.’;
Descendverb
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.’;
Descendverb
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.
Descendverb
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
Descendverb
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.
Descendverb
To move toward the south, or to the southward.
Descendverb
To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Descendverb
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.’;
Descendverb
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way;
‘The temperature is going down’; ‘The barometer is falling’; ‘The curtain fell on the diva’; ‘Her hand went up and then fell again’;
Descendverb
come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example;
‘She was descended from an old Italian noble family’; ‘he comes from humble origins’;
Descendverb
do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Descendverb
come as if by falling;
‘Night fell’; ‘Silence fell’;
