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redescend, v.|riːdɪˈsɛnd|
[re- 5 a. Cf. F. redescendre (13th c.).]
To descend again: a. intr. (Cf. descend 1–9.)
1597Middleton Wisd. Solomon vi. 1 Forthwith the voice of God did redescend. 1650Howell Lett. ii. liii. 67 O let them redescend, and still My soul with holy raptures fill. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Sap, Through these it re-descends to the root, and thence to the earth again. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. iii. i. 24 That fatal child..Who waits..To redescend and trample out the spark. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 459 The sea..by degrees re-descends to its point of departure.
b. trans. (Cf. descend 11.)
1819W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLVII. 398 He was obliged to re-descend the pulpit. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxv. (1859) II. 295 Having reached the pinnacle of generalisation, we may redescend the ladder.
Hence redeˈscending ppl. a. So redeˈscent, a fresh descent.
1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iii. xiv, Only the rustle of the redescending birds..disturbed the langour of the afternoon.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 755/1 Such pressure will be sufficient to prevent a re-descent. |