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Definition of Descension
1. n. The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Definition of Descension
1. Noun. (rare) Descent; the act of descending. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
2. Noun. (astronomy obsolete) The descent below the horizon of a celestial body. (defdate 16th-19th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Descension
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Medical Definition of Descension
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The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descension
Literary usage of Descension
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes; Or, A Philosophical View of the by Thomas Keith (1832)
"Required the rising and setting amplitude of Sirius, its oblique ascension,
oblique descension, and diurnal arc, at London. of the hour-circle to twelve, ..."
2. A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, Or, A Philosophical View of the by Thomas Keith (1811)
"What are the sun's right ascension, oblique ascension, and oblique descension,
on the 27th of September at London ? what is the ascensional difference, ..."
3. The Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels: Critical Studies in the Historic by Thomas James Thorburn (1916)
"THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION TO HEAVEN The descension to Hades THE theological
tradition of the descent of Jesus to the nether world, which forms a ..."
4. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"(B) descension THEORY. According to the descension theory veins are fillings of
fissures which wedge out below. The vein filling came in from above and is ..."
5. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1897)
"descension of Jesus, he exclaims in adoration, My Lord and my God. If the foregoing
interpretation is correct, it will be seen that the prologue is neither ..."
6. Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century by Pardoe (Julia) (1855)
"... Festivities at Court—The royal Death-Bed—111 timed Briquet—The Holy Oils—Death
of Anne of Austria—Con descension of Mademoiselle—The Archbishop and the ..."
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