redescend

redescend

English

Etymology

re- +‎ descend

Verb

redescend (third-person singular simple present redescends, present participle redescending, simple past and past participle redescended)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent)
   • 1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67,

     To thee sweet Spirit I return

     That love wherwith my heart doth burn,

     And these bless’d notions of my brain

     I now breath up to thee again,

     O let them redescend, and still

     My soul with holy raptures fill.

   • 1786, The Monthly Review, Volume 75, Appendix, Article 32, p. 544,

     […] these vapours rise […] [and] are expanded in the rarefied air before they redescend in the form of clouds and drizzling rain;

   • {{RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island|part=3|chapter=[ chapter 14]|page=113-114|text= […] the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.}}
   • 1999, Jeffrey Moore, Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, New York: Putnam, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 40,

     I redescended the stairs, umbrella in hand, and slammed the door for the third time.

Anagrams

• descender

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French

Verb

redescend

1. third-person singular present indicative of redescendre

Anagrams

• descendre