Descent definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DESCENT, n. 1. The act of descending; the act of passing ... or falling. 2. Inclination downward; obliquity; slope; declivity; as the descent of a hill, or a roof. 3. Progress downward; as the descent from higher to lower orders of beings. 4. Fall from ... invasion of troops from the sea; as, to make a descent on Cuba. 6. A passing from an ancestor to an heir; transmission by succession or inheritance, as the descent of an estate or a title from the father ...
... discourse; Eng. kind.] 1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ... in the natural order of succession. 2. Pedigree; lineage; regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor. WordNet (r ... genos race Date: 14th century 1. an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms 2. regular descent of a person, family, or group of organisms from a ... Reference Dictionary n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. b an account or exposition ... of this. 2 the study and investigation of lines of descent. 3 a plant's or animal's line of ...
line of descent definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the kinship ... relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors [syn: descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation] 2: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock ...
Descent by distaff definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Distaff Dis"taff ... The plural is regular, but Distaves occurs in Beaumont & Fletcher. Descent by distaff, descent on the mother's side. Distaff Day, or Distaff's ...
... or white tinged with blue. 2. Kindred; relation by natural descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity. God hath made of one ... entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock ... royal lineage < a prince of the blood > c. relationship by descent from a common ancestor ; kinship d. persons related through common descent ; kindred e. (1) honorable or high birth or descent (2) descent from parents of recognized breed or pedigree ...
DESCEND; DESCENT definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia de-send', de-sent' (yaradh ... the one of the incarnation, and the other of the "descent into hell" (1Pe 3:19). The former regards the clause ...
... descending from a higher to a lower place by gravity; descent; as a fall from a horse or from the yard ... voice at the close of a sentence. 9. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. 10. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water ... the Hoosatonuc at Canaan. Fall is applied to a perpendicular descent, or to one that is very steep. When the descent is moderate, we name it rapids. Custom, however, sometimes deviates ... the Po into the gulf of Venice. 12. Extent of descent; the distance which any thing falls; as, the water ...
Curve of quickest descent definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Curve Curve, n. [See Curve ... Axis of a curve. See under Axis. Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the ...
... origin) has found special favor, partly as co-Adamitism, or descent of different races from different progenitors (Paracelsus and others), partly as pre-adamitism, or descent of dark- colored races from an ancestor who lived before ... races of man are descended from a single primitive stock" (Descent of Man, second ed., 176); and on a previous page ... of man, several of his followers reject that line of descent altogether. This may be seen in the Cambridge volume, dedicated ... ancestry for man, acknowledges, though reluctantly, that "the line of descent disappears in the darkness of the ancestry of the mammals ... great a power to natural selection. He himself in the Descent of Man considered it "one of the greatest oversights" ...
... progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. Hence, birth or honorable descent. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the descendants of ... entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock ... Merriam Webster's noun Date: 14th century 1. line of descent ; lineage; especially honorable, noble, or aristocratic descent 2. persons initiating or comprising a line of descent ; ...
... entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock ... relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors [syn: descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation] 3: the number of lines in a piece ... Merriam Webster's I. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. descent in a line from a common progenitor b. derivation 2. a group of individuals tracing descent from a common ancestor; especially such a group of ...
... the extraction of a fetus or child in midwifery. 1. Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family ... to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction] 3: the action of taking out something (especially using ... extracted. 2 the removal of a tooth. 3 origin, lineage, descent (of Indian extraction). Etymology: ME f. F f. LL extractio ... or tincture. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. ``A family ... France. (FORMAL) Her real father was of Italian extraction... = origin, descent N-UNCOUNT: with supp Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Drawing out, pulling out, pulling. 2. Lineage, descent, birth, origin, genealogy, parentage. 3. ( Math. ) Determination (of a ...