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One who depends; a dependent.

As having dependence. Hale.

wares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend. The deprehended adulteress.Jer. Taylor.

g, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

Descendent.

Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.

One who descends.

The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs (Astron.), those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward. -- Descending series (Math.), a series in which eac…

In a descending manner.

To spend; to squander. See Dispend. [Obs.] Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.

In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign.

A detachment or separation from a former connection. [R.]

Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected. [R.]

To unbend. [Obs.] Stirling.

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. [R.] Spenser. By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others. Jer. Taylor.

Deserving, disapprobation or blame. -- Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness, n.

Blame; censure; reproach. [R.] Ayliffe.

One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.