descending
/dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ/ adjective C2- Moving or sloping downwards.
- Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. (of a sequence) · Please arrange these numbers in a descending order.
- Causing a sequence to follow a descending order. · We used a descending sort.
- Becoming lower in pitch.
From the library
But Jupiter is descending to-day.
“What was it that you thought?” asked the young man anxiously, in his turn descending from the table.
“At the sight of papers of all sorts,—titles, contracts, parchments, which were kept in the archives of the family, all descending from the poisoned cardinal, I in my turn examined the immense bundles of documents, like twenty servitors, stewards, secretaries before me; but in spite of the most exhaustive researches, I found—nothing.
Faria has dreamed this; the Cardinal Spada buried no treasure here; perhaps he never came here, or if he did, Cæsar Borgia, the intrepid adventurer, the stealthy and indefatigable plunderer, has followed him, discovered his traces, pursued them as I have done, raised the stone, and descending before me, has left me nothing.”
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