Descent
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
(2): ( n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
(3): ( n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
(4): ( n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
(5): ( n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
(6): ( n.) 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.
(7): ( n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
(8): ( n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.
(9): ( n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
(10): ( n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
King James Dictionary [2]
DESCENT, n.
1. The act of descending the act of passing from a higher to a lower place, by any form of motion, as by walking, riding, rolling, sliding, sinking 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 a higher to a lower state or station. 5. A landing from ships 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 to the son. Descent is lineal, when it proceeds directly from the father to the son, and from the son to the grandson collateral, when it proceeds from a man to his brother, nephew or other collateral representative. 7. A proceeding from an original or progenitor. The Jews boast of their descent from Abraham. Hence, 8. Birth extraction lineage as a noble descent. 9. A generation a single degree in the scale of genealogy distance from the common ancestor.
No man is a thousand descents from Adam.
10. Offspring issue descendants.
The care of our descent perplexes most.
11. A rank in the scale of subordination. 12. Lowest place. 13. In music, a passing from a note or sound to one more grave or less acute.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
denotes "a going down," akin to No. 1 under Descend "a way down," Luke 19:37 .
Holman Bible Dictionary [4]
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [5]
Of Christ into Hell.
See HELL.
