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Definition of descent

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Descent (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc..

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Gradient :: Gradient (n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.

Genealogist :: Genealogist (n.) One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) A steep descent or declivity.

Incline :: Incline (n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

Line :: Line (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings..

Eurasian :: Eurasian (a.) Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain..

Traduction :: Traduction (n.) Derivation by descent; propagation.

Downfall :: Downfall (n.) A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin..

Extraction :: Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

Entail :: Entail (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.

Brachystochrone :: Brachystochrone (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid..

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

Entailment :: Entailment (n.) The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent..

Creole :: Creole (n.) One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico..

Clivity :: Clivity (n.) Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.

Strain :: Strain (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc..

Boer :: Boer (n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

Pedigree :: Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

Slide :: Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide..