Definition of "descended" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of descend. (verb)

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• "The name descended from a Celtic tribe called the Santoni, a fiercely independent people with a strong sense of their own ways."
• "I feel no allegiance or kinship to my slave names despite their being patronymic a name descended from the father."
• "Although twice married Byron left no children, and his title descended to his brother Richard (1605-1679), who had been governor of Newark."