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redescend

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Etymology

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From re- +‎ descend.

Verb

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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,[1]
      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[2], 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;
    • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “14]”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), pages 113-114:
      [] 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[3], New York: Putnam, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 40:
      I redescended the stairs, umbrella in hand, and slammed the door for the third time.

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Verb

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redescend

  1. third-person singular present indicative of redescendre

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