descend

«descend» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: come down, fall; come from — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

come down, fall; come from

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To go or come down, or to fall. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means going down. In the Sefer Yetzirah sentence it means coming forth from a source, which is an old sense.

examples

• And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. (Torah EXO.34.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• "To-morrow the sun will shine, or the rain descend. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

primary record

descend

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 33 (Torah 0, tales 32, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 0; ratio 3.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
• And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.
• For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his wealth shall not descend after him.
• Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended?
• Birds are living dinosaurs, descended from small feathered meat-eating dinosaurs, and there are about 11,000 kinds of birds alive today.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «descend» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.