All 3 Uses of
descend
in
The Hobbit
- Some say that he is a bear descended from the great and ancient bears of the mountains that lived there before the giants came.
Chpt 7 *descended = having come (genetically)
- Others say that he is a man descended from the first men who lived before Smaug or the other dragons came into this part of the world, and before the goblins came into the hills out of the North.†
Chpt 7 *
- For most of them (together with their scattered relations in the hills and mountains) were descended from the ancient tribes that never went to Faerie in the West.
Chpt 8descended = genetically
Definitions:
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(descend as in: descend from royalty) figuratively, to have come down a path from the past; i.e., to originate or come from -- such as in reference to ancestors or evolutionary origins
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(descend as in: descend the mountain) move or slope downward