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descend from someone or some group [for a living creature] to come from a particular set of ancestors. I descend from a large family of Dutch traders. Wally is descended from Daniel Boone. See also: descend descend from something to move down from something. The bird descended from the top of the tree to a lower branch. Take care when you descend from the ladder. See also: descend How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Among the company's 725,000 subscribers there are people who have discovered they descend from royalty, or Mayflower passengers, or that Butch Cassidy is their seventh cousin. You, too, wish to be an infidel, to pry off your boots and release to the river's persuasions, so descend from your birch and make peace with Squanto, that sagamore with a hummingbird through each ear, with a lynx pelt loose on his shoulder. The length of time required for sepsis to descend from the neck to the mediastinum is variable. |
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