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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Condescend

Con′de·scend′ (kŏn′dē·sĕnd′), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Condescended; p. pr. & vb. n. Condescending.] [F. condescendre, LL. condescendere, fr. L. con- + descendere. See Descend.] 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 servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands? Milton.

Spain's mighty monarch, In gracious clemency, does condescend, On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden.

Often used ironically, implying an assumption of superiority.

Those who thought they were honoring me by condescending to address a few words to me. F. W. Robinson.

2. To consent. [Obs.]

All parties willingly condescended heruento. R. Carew.

Syn. — To yield; stoop; descend; deign; vouchsafe.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.