Meaning

• To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.

  "The rain descended, and the floods came."

• To enter mentally; to retire.

• (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

  "And on the suitors let thy wrath descend."

• To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself

  "he descended from his high estate"

• To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.

• To come down, as from a source, original, or stock

• To be derived (from)

• To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.

  "A crown descends to the heir."

• To move toward the south, or to the southward.

• To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

• To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

  "they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder"