descend
verb (used without object)
to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down.
redescend
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a word derived from
descend.
Example Sentences
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If we suppose this air to redescend whence it rose, it would, on reaching the equator, find the Earth going too fast for it.
From The Ocean and its Wonders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
His doctrine bore indeed the name of evolutionism; it claimed to remount and redescend the course of the universal becoming; but, in fact, it dealt neither with becoming nor with evolution.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
They redescend into the stream of experience with it, and cash it into so much small-change value in the way of ‘ideas’ and their connections with each other.
From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Delton Loring Geyer
You cannot redescend into the world of particulars by the Absolute's aid, or deduce any necessary consequences of detail important for your life from your idea of his nature.
From Pragmatism by William James
But after being suspended for an instant aloft, the balloon began to redescend, the gas escaping by the rent which it was impossible to repair.
From The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
