Crossword clues for descendent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Descendent \De*scend"ent\, a. [L. descendens, -entis, p. pr. of descendre. Cf. Descendant.] Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
More than mortal grace
Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see descendant.
Wiktionary
a. 1 descending; going down 2 descending from (an ancestor) alt. 1 descending; going down 2 descending from (an ancestor)
WordNet
adj. going or coming down [syn: descendant]
n. a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race [syn: descendant] [ant: ancestor]
Usage examples of "descendent".
Once upon the level trail of the canyon bottom I whispered a word into the pointed ear before me, couched my lance, and crouched in the saddle as the thirtieth descendent of the first Red Lightning flattened in swift charge.
Brother-General Or-tis, the descendent of the original archvillain and equally evil.
A large and powerful man who is a descendent of the American working class.
The title is held by the descendent of the original Julian line, Julian zoth, the Red Hawk.
Though martyred in the revolution, his descendents carried on the battle, eventually triumphing over the Moon Men in 2432.
These descendents of Shalomon of whom you speakI know nothing of them save what is told in story.
My gestational status did not in the least misshape my body, and I am, after all, a descendent of the House of Fairfax.
He believed the Nkonde, a gentle, peace-loving people, were descendents of the Hamites, the lost tribe of Israel.
Skartesh conquered their fear of water, and the conditions on Skart someday improve, perhaps you or your descendents can return to your homeworld.
Although the Han at first appear to be a stereotype of the Yellow Peril, Nowlan apparently became worried that they might be seen as racist, and in the second Buck Rogers story identifies them as descendents of a race of space aliens, interbred with some Mongol women they captured.
What was there about these surfaces that made the journey seem descendent and led him to believe he was breathing sheerest calculus?
With all their telescopes, the astronomers living in the golden light of Arcturus or the diamond blaze of Canopus would be unable to detect the least glimmer of the conflagration that had destroyed the seat of Adam and his descendents, just as now they are totally ignorant of its existence.
I've suspected for a while that many of the human life mates who display psychic abilities may be descendents of the Jaguar race, not all of them, but at least a substantial majority.
Oh you into whom the maternal love of our ancestresses has passed, watch over your descendents still.
Possibly a Shaldron, a direct descendent of a human called Collard, might go out to meet them.