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descended
[dih-sen-did]
adjective
having a specified ancestry or ethnic origin.
She was the only daughter of a wealthy baron and his royally descended wife.
having gone from a higher place or position to a lower one.
The cooled and descended air then travels along the earth’s surface toward the equator to replace air rising from the equatorial zone.
He was hailed as some descended godhead on earth—an avatar.
inherited or transmitted, as through succeeding generations of a family.
Early mammals generally possessed claws, and all existing cat species carry that descended trait.
derived from something in the remote past, especially through continuous transmission.
Traditional religions tend to focus on descended practice and ritual rather than on doctrine taught by a religious institution.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of descend.
Other Word Forms
- undescended adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of descended1
Example Sentences
Leaders of some of the world's wealthiest countries have descended on a luxury mountain lodge nestled in Canada's Rockies for this year's G7 summit.
Scenes of chaos descended on the campus as people ran around trying to escape - or find out what had happened.
This triggered an anti-immigration protest in Belfast city centre, which descended into a day and night of violence, with further disorder in the next few days.
A group of demonstrators then descended on five Waymo taxis lined up on Los Angeles Street between Arcadia and Alameda streets around 5 p.m.
On Saturday, federal officers fired smoke canisters at protesters near the business park, and that putrid green smoke descended onto the nearby residential community.
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