All 19 Uses
descend
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Lord of Light
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- A horde of demons had tried to descend upon the City at that moment, but the power of the weird held them back.
Part 5 *descend = come or arrive
- Sam raised his lance and a jagged line of light ran up into the heavens, provoking a dozen more to descend upon the field.
Part 6 *descend = come down
- On these occasions, he descended to the ground and studied the surface markings.†
Part 1
- I did experiment with them for many years, and I was one of the Four who descended into Hellwell, if you recall, after Taraka fled Lord Agni at Palamaidsu.†
Part 1
- Chhandogya Upanishad (I, ii, 1-6) It is told how the Lord of Light descended into the Well of the Demons, to make there a bargain with the chief of the Rakasha.†
Part 4
- He could not see across it, but he knew it to be roughly circular in shape; and he knew, too, that it widened in circumference as it descended.†
Part 4
- A rain of spiders and toads descended upon him.†
Part 4
- They left the royal chambers and descended the stair.†
Part 4
- Step by step they descended, and from each niche fire spilled forth and flowed outward.†
Part 4
- After a time, one of the Rakasha who had left earlier re-entered and descended the well.†
Part 4
- They descend slowly.†
Part 4
- With the help of the second Rakasha, they descended the entire distance to the base of Channa and moved up a trail and around a bend.†
Part 4
- "Kali and Yama and Agni descend," he stated.†
Part 4
- So they came into the Celestial City, riding on the backs of the cousins of the Garuda Bird, spinning down in sky gondolas, rising up through arteries of the mountains, blazing across the snow-soaked, ice-tracked wastes, to make Milehigh Spire to ring with their song, to laugh through a spell of brief and inexplicable darkness that descended and dispersed again, shortly;†
Part 5
- They descended upon the Celestial City on the back of the bird called Garuda.†
Part 6
- Kubera moved to face him, a dark, moist line descending his chin.†
Part 6
- No rain of destruction descended, however.†
Part 6
- There were screams from both sides as the sun covered its face and darkness descended upon the field.†
Part 6
- Sam sprang before the second blow descended, but he did not reach the ground in time.†
Part 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(descend as in: descend the mountain) move or slope downward
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(2)
(descend as in: in descending order) move down a scale -- as from larger numbers to smaller, or higher notes to lower
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(3)
(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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(4)
(descend as in: descend into poverty) figuratively, to move downward to a worse or less prestigious situation
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(5)
(descend as in: descend into deeper thought) to move from a higher level of abstraction downward to a lower one (from more general to more specific); or to move from superficial to deeper thought
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(6)
(descend as in: thieves descended upon us) to come or arrive -- especially suddenly or from above or as an attack
- (7) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)