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▪ I. † deˈscender1 Law. Obs.
Also 6 decendre, 6–7 discender.
[a. F. descendre, pres. inf. used subst.: cf. attainder, remainder; cf. -er4.]
Descent; title of descent.
1485Act 1 Hen. VII, c. 1 Subjects having cause of Action by Formedon in the descender, or else in the remainder. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 13 To sue his pleynt in y⊇ nature of the kynges writ of formdowne in decendre at the commen lawe. [1590Swinburne Treat. Testaments 94 If the issue do recover the same in formdon in the discent.] 1598Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 250 Formedon in Discender lyeth where the Donee in Tail or free Marriage aliens that Land so given. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 192 The heir in tail shall have this writ of formedon in the descender, to recover these lands, so given in tail, against him who is then the actual tenant of the freehold.
▪ II. descender2|dɪˈsɛndə(r)|
[f. descend v. + -er1.]
a. One who or that which descends.
1667Denham Direct. Paint. iv. ix. 3 Horrors and Anguish of Descenders there, May teach thee how to paint Descenders here. 1855Grote Greece ii. xcvi. XII. 507 An altar erected in honour of Demetrius Katabates or the Descender. 1863Murphy Comm. Gen. xiii. 10 This river [Jordan] may well be called the Descender.
b. Typogr. A letter or character that descends below the line; cf. descending ppl. a. 2 b. Also in Printing and Palæography, a descending stroke; a stroke which extends below the body of a letter.
1802Monthly Mag. XIV. 70/1 Each small letter is to be without any tail-piece or descender. 1883Are we to read backwards? 39 The modern Arabic figures—uniform in linage—[are] more legible than the ‘old style’ figures, with their many ascenders and descenders. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 304/3 Where it saves space..is by very nearly eliminating the ‘descenders’ of the lower-case. 1954N. R. Ker in R. M. Wilson A. Riwle (Caius MS.) p. xii, The end of the descender of r, as of other tailed letters, often turns sharply to the left. |