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descendible, -able, a.|dɪˈsɛndɪb(ə)l, -əb(ə)l|
[In 16th c. descendable, a. OF. descendable: subseq. conformed to L. analogies, as in ascendibilis from ascendĕre.]
1. That descends or may descend to an heir; capable of being transmitted by inheritance.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 49 The Lordshippes..[shall be] descendable and discend to the heires att Commen Lawe. 1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 116 a, Wher tenements bee dyscendable to the yonger sonne after the custome of borough Englishe. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 191 If the son had attained this Freedom by the death of his father, as a thing descendible. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 404 Which title is..usually descendible to the issue male. 1822W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. LIII. 103, I make their whole property descendable only to the first-begotten son. 1868Sat. Rev. 17 Oct. 521 The Derwentwater earldom was only descendible to heirs male.
†2. Having the property of descending or moving downwards. Obs. rare.
1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1824) 164 He may make a trench in his own grounds to let the water run downwards, and to descend upon his neighbour's grounds, for water is an element descendible jure naturæ.
3. Capable of being descended; down which one may go. rare.
1730–6Bailey (folio), Descendable, which may descend or be descended, or gone down. 1755Johnson, Descendible, such as may be descended; such as may admit of a passage downwards. 1863Sat. Rev. 418 Descendible by zigzag Indian paths, traversing the face of the rocky walls. |