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gravity's favorite invitation, accepted by everything that ever dared to climb
means A downward movement or slope, or alternatively a person's ancestry — the line you came down from.
from From Old French descendre, from Latin descendere, 'to climb down' — built from de- ('down') and scandere ('to climb'). That same scandere gives us 'ascend' and even 'scan' (which once meant to mark the rising and falling beats of poetry). The leap from physical falling to family lineage is old too: your 'descent' is the slope of generations you slid down from your ancestors.
- deadlier half
- most mountaineering deaths happen going down, not up
- free fall
- skydivers descend at roughly 120 mph terminal velocity
- controlled crash
- every plane landing is a precisely managed descent
- word roots
- from Latin descendere, to climb down
- bloodline twist
- also means ancestry, your descent from someone above
the descent of man — darwin's 1871 book arguing human evolution from earlier primate species
descent into hell — dante's inferno journey through 9 circles of hell in 14th century florence
descent of inanna — sumerian myth where goddess descends to underworld, earliest known descent narrative
descent 2005 film — jon harris british cave diving horror film set in wales