descend
suomi-englanti sanakirjadescend englannista suomeksi
laskeutua
polveutua, periytyä
vajota
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Substantiivi
descend englanniksi
(non-gloss definition)
To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to down along or upon.
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(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Burke Sublime and Beautiful)
(RQ:Byron Parisina)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
(RQ:Priestley English Journey)
Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
To move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down.
(RQ:Hale Mankind)
To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
(antonyms)
(quote-book) Dated Hampton Court, 14 Sept. 20 Hen. VIII.|title=Letters and papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of (w).(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Longman & Co., and Trübner|Trübner & Co.,(nb...)|year=1528 September 24 (Gregorian calendar)|year_published=1872|volume=IV, part II|section=paragraph 5102 (Calais)|page=2232|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/letterspaperspt204greauoft/page/2232/mode/1up|oclc=277886749|passage=And there is another watergang, called Haile Fayers watergang, 4 miles long and 16 feet broad, which descendeth by a spoye of stone at Hofkirk bridge into the said great river, which must always be cast at the tenants' cost.
(RQ:Thomas More Workes)
(RQ:Book of Common Prayer)
(RQ:Estienne Liebault Maison Rustique) ''Noe'' ''i.e.'', (w) vvith his familie comming out of the arke vpon the top of the mount Cordicus, deſcended into the plaine at the foote of the mountaine filled vvith dead bodies (vvhich is called ''Miri Adam'', vvhich is as much as the place of bovvelled men) (..)
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(RQ:Herrick Hesperides)
(quote-book)||year=a. 1862 (date written)|year_published=1862|page=76|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/poemswithmemo00clou/page/76/mode/1up|oclc=1231115385|passage=O stream descending to the sea, / Thy mossy banks between, / The flow'rets blow, the grasses grow, / The leafy trees are green. // In garden plots the children play, / The fields the labourers till, / And houses stand on either hand, / And thou descendest still.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Knight (publisher)|Charles Knight and Co.,(nb...)|year=1841|volume=III|page=453|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZIWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA453|oclc=1127756726|passage=And they accosted the sheykh Abu-r-Ruweysh and said to him, O our sheykh, Bahrám practised a strategem to effect his ascent to the top of the mountain, and how did he descend, and what wonders did he see upon the mountain? The sheykh Abu-r-Ruweysh therefore said, O Ḥasan, tell them how thou descendedst, and acquaint them with the wonders that thou sawest.
(quote-book); Rugeley, Staffordshire: J. T. Walters|year=1844|volume=II|page=163|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-6ierwDCq4C&pg=PA163|oclc=57649900|passage=Let that mighty rushing wind, in which aforetime Thou descendedst, purge away the chaff of our carnal affections, and with a holy violence beat down our strongholds of sin, and all the proud imaginations that resist Thy grace.
(RQ:Priestley English Journey) I know very well that if your supply of coal depended on my walking several miles to a pithead, descending in a cage for half a mile, walking again to the dwindling tunnel where I had to work, then slogging away for about seven hours in that hell, all for something like two pounds a week, your grates would be empty.
(quote-book)
Of a sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
Of a body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
Of a part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the cavity into the scrotum.
Of a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner.
(RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)
To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.
(RQ:Twain Warner Gilded Age) When the conveyance at length drew up to Mr. Thompson's door, the gentleman descended with great deliberation, straightened himself up, rubbed his hands, and beaming satisfaction from every part of his radiant frame, advanced to the group that was gathered to welcome him, and which had saluted him by name as soon as he came within hearing.
To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.
(RQ:Hall Meditations and Vowes) VVinter comes on ſoftly, firſt by colde devves, then hoare froſts, vntill at laſt it deſcende to the hardeſt vveather of all: (..)
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
Of a physical thing (such as a a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.
(RQ:Garnier Kyd Cornelia)
(quote-book)&93;|title=(w), the Daughter of (w). A Dramatic Poem|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam,(nb...)|year=1862|pages=244–245|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/salomeherodias00heywrich/page/245/mode/1up|oclc=5058560|passage=Death spreadeth darkly above thee, / Descendeth, descendeth upon thee, / Suffocating! suffocating! ah!
(RQ:Twain Warner Gilded Age)
In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
(RQ:Fuller Waltham Abbey)
(RQ:Idler)
(RQ:Burke Regicide Peace)
(RQ:Macaulay Edinburgh Review)
''Chiefly followed by'' into ''or'' to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.
(synonyms)
''Chiefly followed by'' on ''or'' upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
(quote-journal) Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers to (w) for the (w)|month=April|year=1893|year_published=1896|volume=XVI|page=201|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/journalofamerica16ameruoft/page/201/mode/1up|issn=0003-0279|oclc=47785421|passage=When moving down against him thou descendest against the sleeping man unknowing, let Varuṇa cover me with a golden armor.
''Chiefly followed by'' on ''or'' upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
To down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
(RQ:Hall Vertues and Vices)
(RQ:Johnson Rambler)
(RQ:Byron Giaour)
''Chiefly in the form'' descend into ''(or'' within'')'' oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
(RQ:Howell German Diet)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)
Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.
(RQ:Cheyne Philosophical Principles), &c.
To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.
To trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations.
Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
(RQ:Steele Englishman)
''Chiefly followed by'' from ''or (obsolete)'' of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)
(RQ:Estienne Liebault Maison Rustique)
(RQ:Spectator) We are descended of ancient families, and kept up our dignity and honour many years till the jack-sprat THAT supplanted us.
(RQ:Gibbon Roman Empire)|page=4|passage=An hero, deſcended from a race of Kings, muſt have deſpiſed the baſe Iſaurian vvho vvas inveſted vvith the Roman purple, vvithout any endovvments of mind or body, vvithout any advantages of royal birth, or ſuperior qualifications.
(RQ:Maugham Razor's Edge)
Of property, a right, etc.: to down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
(RQ:Coke Institutes)
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries)
(quote-book)|year=1911|volume_plain=part I (The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, volume II)|page=217|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/magicartevolutio0002fraz/page/217/mode/1up|oclc=1114903848|passage=The possession of the sacred fire and of the ancestral sticks, carrying with it both political authority and priestly dignity, descends in the male line, and hence generally passes from father to son.
(synonym of)
(RQ:Markham Cavelarice)
(inflection of)