Descent definitions

Descent

1) Abseil 2) Acquisition 3) Ancestry 4) Bloodline 5) Breed 6) Declivity 7) Degression 8) Descension 9) Disappointment 10) Downslope 11) Filiation 12) Incline 13) Kinfolk 14) Kinsfolk 15) Lightening 16) Lineage 17) Origin 18) Parachuting 19) Phratry 20) Prelapsarian 21) Sinking 22) Worsening
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Descent

1) Ancestry 2) British bi-monthly magazine 3) British sports magazine 4) Cadence 5) Change of location 6) Collapse 7) Comedown 8) Cropper 9) Culbute 10) Declension 11) Declination 12) Decline 13) Derivation from an ancestor 14) Descension 15) Down slope 16) Downfall 17) Downward climb 18) Downward inclination
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descent

1. a movement downward
2. properties attributable to your ancestry
3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction
4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
5. a downward slope
6. the descendants of one individual

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Descent

[video game] Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay in Europe in 1994. The game features six degrees of freedom gameplay and garnered several expansion packs. It spawned two direct sequels: Descent II and Descent 3. The trademark registration for Descent was allowed to lapse ...
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Descent

• (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. • (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. • (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending li...
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Descent

the system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations
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descent

the system of acknowledged social parentage, which varies from society to society, whereby a person may claim kinship ties with another. If no ... [8 related articles]
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descent

A font’s maximum distance below the baseline.
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descent

Synonym: descensus. ... 2. In obstetrics, the passage of the presenting part of the foetus into and through the birth canal. ... Origin: L. Descensus ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Descent

n. Inheritance rules that were established by law for cases where a will does not exist that names who should receive the possessions of the deceased. State rules vary and are governed by the law of the state where the deceased lived. The estate my all go to a surviving spouse and down the line from a parent to child or to surviving parents, or to ...
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descent

For a given font, a measure of its maximum distance below the baseline.
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Descent

De·scent' noun [ French descente , from descendre ; like vente , from vendre . See Descend .] 1. The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower. 2. Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -...
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Descent

Hereditary succession. Descent is the title, whereby a person, upon the death of his ancestor, acquires the estate of the latter, as his heir at law: This manner of acquiring title is directly opposed to that of purchase. It will be proper to consider: 1. What kind of property descends; and, 2. The general rules of descent.
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descent

Type: Term Pronunciation: dē-sent′ Definitions: 1. In obstetrics, the passage of the presenting part of the fetus into and through the birth canal. Synonyms: descensus
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Descent

The passing of estate property through inheritance, either by law or through estate planning -- as opposed to acquisition of property through other means, such as purchase.
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Descent

The process in which the fetus's presenting part (head, buttocks, legs, etc) moves downward through the birth canal during a vaginal delivery.
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Descent

Descent is the collective noun for a group of woodpeckers.
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Descent

In music a descent is a passing from a higher to a lower tone.
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descent

[n] - the kinship relation between an individual and the individual`s progenitors 2. [n] - a downward slope or bend 3. [n] - a movement downward 4. [n] - the act of changing your location in a downward direction
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descent

describes a flock or group of woodpeckers.
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descent

noun the act of changing your location in a downward direction
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descent

the act, process, or fact of descending. · a downward inclination or slope. · a passage or stairway leading down. · derivation from an ancestor; lineage; extraction. · any passing from higher to lower in degree or state; decline. · a sudden raid or hostile attack. · transmission of real property by intestate success...
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