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descendental, a. nonce-wd.|diːsɛnˈdɛntəl|
[f. L. dēscendent-em, pr. pple. of dēscendĕre to descend + -al1: after transcendental.]
That descends to matter of fact; naturalistic, realistic.
1850Whipple Ess. & Rev. II. 342 Square, lover of Plato and Molly Segrim, with his brain full of transcendental morality, and his heart full of descendental appetites. 1860J. Young Prov. Reason 54 Since the days of Locke..the philosophy of England has been only descendental. 1863Reader I. 376/3 Mr. Mill belongs to what has been variously named the Empirical..Sensational, or Descendental School of Philosophy.
Hence descenˈdentalism, -ist (nonce-wds.).
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. x, With all this Descendentalism, he combines a Transcendentalism no less superlative. 1882Whipple in Harper's Mag. LXV. 579 He belonged to the respectable race of descendentalists, and was evidently puzzled to understand how a transcendentalist could acquire property. |