Descent

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.

Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

That which is descended; descendants; issue.

A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

Lowest place; extreme downward place.

A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"

the hereditary derivation of an individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

a downward slope or bend

a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides"

the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors