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Definition of Descendant

1. Adjective. Going or coming down.

2. Noun. A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race.

3. Adjective. Proceeding by descent from an ancestor. "Descendent gene"

Definition of Descendant

1. a. Descendent.

2. n. One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.

Definition of Descendant

1. Adjective. descending from a biological ancestor ¹

2. Adjective. proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source ¹

3. Noun. (literally) One who is the progeny of someone at any distance of time ¹

4. Noun. (figuratively) One which derives directly from a given precursor or source ¹

5. Noun. (biology) A later evolutionary type ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Descendant

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Descendant

descales descaling descant descant on descanted descanter descanters descanting descants descarga

descemet's membrane descemetitis descemetocele descend descendable descendant descendants descended descendence descendences

descendency descendens descendens cervicalis descendens hypoglossi descendent descendents descender descenders descendeur descendibilities

Literary usage of Descendant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1799)
"... to the eldest and every aliar male LINEAL Descendant OR ... the eldest and every other male lineal descendant or descendants as aforesaid of my said son ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Л humble shoemaker believes himself the descendant of these ... The present descendant is Maria Cecilia Agatha Anna Josepha Laurentia Donata Melchiora ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Henry Peter Brougham Brougham and Vaux, Great Britain Court of Chancery, James William Mylne, Baron John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst (1839)
"The words are not the " eldest male descendant," but the " eldest male lineal descendant;" and I do not find, in any subsequent part of this will, ..."

4. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"He married a daughter of Joseph Warren Greene, a lineal descendant of Gen. Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island. His ancestor, Rev. Uzal Ogden, at the request ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"... in " or parts and " such part or parts and in such manner as he shall think " manner as he " fit in preference to any descendant on his own female " sn^ ..."

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