noun lowest place; extreme downward place.
2. descent ·noun a passing from a higher to a lower tone.
3. descent ·noun that which is descended; descendants; issue.
4. descent ·noun the act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
5. descent ·noun derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
6. descent ·noun a step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
7. descent ·noun inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
8. descent ·noun incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea;
often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
9. descent ·noun transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
10. descent ·noun progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, ·etc.