Candescence :: Candescence (n.) See Incandescence.

Condescend :: Condescend (v. i.) 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.

Condescend :: Condescend (v. i.) To consent.

Condescended :: Condescended (imp. & p. p.) of Condescen.

Condescendence :: Condescendence (n.) Alt. of Condescendenc.

Condescendency :: Condescendency (n.) Condescension.

Condescending :: Condescending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condescen.

Condescendingly :: Condescendingly (adv.) In a condescending manner.

Condescension :: Condescension (n.) The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

Condescent :: Condescent (n.) An act of condescension.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The upper voice in part music.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.

Descanted :: Descanted (imp. & p. p.) of Descan.

Descanter :: Descanter (n.) One who descants.

Descanting :: Descanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descan.

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) 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..

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon..

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) 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..

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) 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..

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward..

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

Descend :: Descend (v. t.) 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..

Descendant :: Descendant (a.) Descendent.

Descendant :: Descendant (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant..

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