Definition of: descend

(di·send′) v.i.
1. To move from a higher to a lower point; go or come down; sink.
2. To slope or incline downward, as a path.
3. To stoop; lower oneself.
4. To come down by inheritance; be inherited.
5. To be derived by heredity: with from.
6. To come or arrive in an overwhelming manner, as from above; attack: with on or upon.
7. To pass, as from the general to the particular.
8. Astron. To move southward or toward the horizon, as a star.
—v.t.
9. To move from an upper to a lower part of; go down, as a ladder. See synonyms under FALL. [<OF descendre <L descendere <de- down + scandere climb]