Read full poem →the skies in a storm. Proculus, a Roman senator, said that Romulus had
descended from heaven and spoken to him and then ascended again (Livy,
I, 16).
Dictionary Entry
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
In a Sentence
“The rain descended, and the floods came.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
upon descended. descended
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Poetry examples for “descended”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →sibly, though I spared no enquiry in those noble families whence he was
descended, as also among those gentlemen' that were his acquaintance
when he was of the Inner^Temple : The best pictures, and those most like
Read full poem →Xrancis Beaumont, Esquire, was descended from the ancient family
of that name, at Gracedieu in Leicestershire, and brotlier to Sir Henry
Read full poem →And scratch her fair soft cheeks I did intend.
Seeing her face, mine upreared arms descended,
With her own armour was my wench defended.
Read full poem →If lofty titles cannot make[141] me thine,
That am descended but of knightly line,
(Soon may you plough the little land I have;
Read full poem →It is now the permanent residence of his widow, the
Dowager Queen Alexandra. It descended to King
George and is the only actual property of the King.
Read full poem →By that the Manciple his tale had ended,
The sunne from the south line was descended
So lowe, that it was not to my sight
Read full poem →His beard, of gray and russet blended,
Round as a swallow's nest descended;
As standard-bearer he defended
Read full poem →From the tassels of the birch-trees,
Soft the Spirit of Sleep descended;
By his airy hosts surrounded, 70
Read full poem →From the tassels of the birch-trees,
Soft the Spirit of Sleep descended;
By his airy hosts surrounded,