1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.),The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page14:
Eagledescendant, or descending. See DESCENDANT, and Pl. 22, fig. 6. Eagledescendant, displayed. See Pl. 22, fig. 7. Eagle displayed, recursant. See DISPLAYED RECURSANT, and Pl. 22,[…]
1984, Charles A. Ravenstein,Air Force combat wings: lineage and honors histories 1947-1977, DIANE Publishing,→ISBN, page259:
Azure, surmounting a cloud argent, an American eagledescendant, wings endorsed proper, between his beak four lightning streaks,[…]
Power in the kingdom is transferred in adescendant manner.
1892, Arthur Dillon,Gods and Men, page214:
Pitiable sportster, / To choose thy prey so humbly, to seduce / A beggar wench who hath not the high pride /Descendant still from kingly ancestors, / To keep her royal place.
1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavici-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-Europeanē-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi, Reiner Lipp, editors,Comparative-Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing,→ISBN,page479:
The directdescendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr.nȍsī,dȍnosī.
(astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
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