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.

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..

Descended :: Descended (imp. & p. p.) of Descen.

Descendent :: Descendent (a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.

Descender :: Descender (n.) One who descends.

Descendibility :: Descendibility (n.) The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate..

Descendible :: Descendible (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Descendible :: Descendible (a.) That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.

Descending :: Descending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descen.

Descending :: Descending (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

Descendingly :: Descendingly (adv.) In a descending manner.

Random Fonts

Most Popular