descended

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. [1913 Webster]

The rain descended, and the floods came.— Matt. vii. 25.[1913 Webster]

We will here descend to matters of later date.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]

2.To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]

[He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]

And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

4.To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate. [1913 Webster]

5.To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. [1913 Webster]

6.To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir. [1913 Webster]

7.(Anat.) To move toward the south, or to the southward. [1913 Webster]

8.(Mus.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. [1913 Webster]