Word Meanings - PREGRAVITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To descend by gravity; to sink. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to PREGRAVITATE)

• DESCEND
  To move toward the south, or to the southward. (more info) 1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite
• DESCENDING
  Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing
• DESCENDENT
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• GRAVITY
  The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation. (more info) 1. The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead. 2. Sobriety of
• DESCENDIBLE
  1. Admitting descent; capable of being descended. 2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. "A descendant estate." Sir W. Jones.
• DESCENDER
  One who descends.
• DESCENDANT
  Descendent.
• DESCENDINGLY
  In a descending manner.
• CONDESCEND
  1. To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal
• REDESCEND
  To descend again. Howell.
• CONDESCENDENCE; CONDESCENDENCY
  Condescension.
• CONDESCENDINGLY
  In a condescending manner. Atterbury.