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American Church Dictionary
• Descent Into Hell
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Hell, Descent Into
• Descent Into Hell (Hades)
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Descent
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Descent to Hades
• Descent
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Descent Into Hades
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Descent Into Hades
King James Dictionary
• Descent
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Descent of the Holy Ghost
• Descent From the Cross in Art
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Descent
Webster Dictionary
• Descent
Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Descend; Descent
• Descent of Jesus
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Descent (Christs) Into Hell.
• Hell, Christs Descent Into
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Descent, Law of
Lexicons
• ܝܺܠܺܝܕ݂ܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܡܰܚܰܬ݁ܬ݁ܳܐ
• Catabasis; or Radual Descent
• ἀγενεαλόγητος
• γενεαλογέω
• γένος
•   (only first 3 shown)
• זֶרַע
• מוֹרָד

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.