LekhoriLekhoriSenses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
they descended the river in boats
Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
Synonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”).
[I]t ſhall be good if in your iourney you come to the deſcend of anye great Hil, to light from your Horſes backe, and to vvalke dovvne the hill a foote, […]
PIE word *de The verb is derived from Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendan...
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