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descended

[ dih-sen-did ]

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adjective

having a specified ancestry or ethnic origin:
She was the only daughter of a wealthy baron and his royally descended wife.
having gone from a higher place or position to a lower one:
The cooled and descended air then travels along the earth’s surface toward the equator to replace air rising from the equatorial zone.
He was hailed as some descended godhead on earth—an avatar.
inherited or transmitted, as through succeeding generations of a family:
Early mammals generally possessed claws, and all existing cat species carry that descended trait.
derived from something in the remote past, especially through continuous transmission:
Traditional religions tend to focus on descended practice and ritual rather than on doctrine taught by a religious institution.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of descend.

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of descended¹

First recorded in 1560–70; descend ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; descend ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

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The VIPs are sat in a separate section from the hundreds of thousands of members of the public who have descended on Rome for the event.

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Within about a minute, the next six paddleboarders descended the weir.

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After circulating a flyer with Metcalf's face labeled "Protect White Americans," Lang descended on this Texas suburb to lead a rally painting Black Americans as a near-existential threat to white Americans.

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A rescuer descended from the helicopter — communicating directions with the pilot as he moved along the cliffside — and bear-hugged the woman.

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Last month, hundreds of thousands of people descended on Serbia's capital.

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