3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; — with on or upon. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Pope.
4. 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.
5. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
6. 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.
7. (Anat.)
Defn: To move toward the south, or to the southward.
8. (Mus.)
Defn: To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
DESCEND
De*scend", v. t.
Defn: 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. But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.