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English
Etymology
From re- + descend.
Verb
redescend (third-person singular simple present redescends, present participle redescending, simple past and past participle redescended)
- (ambitransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent)
- 1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67,
- To thee sweet Spirit I return
- That love wherwith my heart doth burn,
- And these bless’d notions of my brain
- I now breath up to thee again,
- O let them redescend, and still
- My soul with holy raptures fill.
1786, The Monthly Review, Volume 75, Appendix, Article 32, p. 544: these vapours rise are expanded in the rarefied air before they redescend in the form of clouds and drizzling rain;
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 14, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), pages 113-114: the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.
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French
Verb
redescend
- third-person singular present indicative of redescendre
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