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Descent

noun

A movement downward.

Properties attributable to your ancestry. Synonyms: extraction, origin.

The act of changing your location in a downward direction.

The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors. Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage.

A downward slope or bend. Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall.

The descendants of one individual. Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock.

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"Descent" Quotes from Famous Books

... The Caliphs of the Abbaside Dynasty traced their descent from Mohammed. Benjamin here refers to the Caliph El Mostanshed. The Caliph is aptly compared to the Pope. In addition to his temporal authority at Bagdad, he exercised as Leader of the Faithful—Emir ...

— The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela • Benjamin of Tudela

... The descent from Patmore and poetry to New York is somewhat abrupt, not to say precipitous, but we made it in safety; and so shall you, if you will be agile. New York is a pleasant little Dutch city, on a dot of island a few miles southwest of Massachusetts. For a city entirely unobtrusive ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... Minto descent, Stevenson claims to have 'shaken a spear in the Debatable Land and shouted the slogan of the Elliots.' He evidently knew little or nothing of his relations on the Elphinstone side. The Logie Elphinstones were a cadet branch of Glack, an estate acquired by ...

— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp

... is not clear whether all members of a family which traced descent, real or putative, from a trade-father, actually carried on that trade. If so, we should have examples of a workmen's guild. Certainly many men who carried on a trade were "sons" of the trade-father, but apparently not all. The Code notes the adoption of a child by an artisan who teaches him his ...

— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns

... but she could not help confessing to herself that her residence in the capital could not be agreeable to him. The highest Spanish officials and military commanders lived there, as well as the ambassadors of foreign powers, and it was not desirable to remind them of the maternal descent of the general who now ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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