scend

Usage

• transcendent

  Something that is transcendent not only surpasses all others in quality, achievement, or significance, but exceeds normal limits or boundaries.

• condescend

  When people condescend, they behave in ways that show that they are supposedly more important or intelligent than other people.

• descendant

  A descendant is someone's offspring or child; it is also someone who can be traced back to an ancestor.

• descend

  When you descend something, such as stairs or a mountain, you go down it.

• ascend

  When you ascend something, such as a mountain or a set of stairs, you go up or climb it.

• ascendancy

  the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

• ascendant

  tending or directed upward

• ascension

  (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven

• condescending

  (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

• condescension

  the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior

• transcend

  be greater in scope or size than some standard

• transcendence

  a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience