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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (adv.) From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.

2. (adv.) From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.

3. (adv.) From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.

Greek

2736. kato -- down, below
... Transliteration: kato Phonetic Spelling: (kat'-o;) Short Definition: down, below,
lower, under, less Definition: (a) down, below, also: downwards, (b) lower ...
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2665. katapetasma -- a curtain (the inner veil of the temple)
... katapetasma Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ap-et'-as-mah) Short Definition: a veil, curtain
Definition: (lit: that which is spread out downwards, that which hangs down ...
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4628. skelos -- the leg (from the hip down)
... down). Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: skelos Phonetic Spelling:
(skel'-os) Short Definition: the leg Definition: the leg (from the hip downwards ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4295. mattah -- downwards
... 4294, 4295. mattah. 4296 . downwards. Transliteration: mattah Phonetic
Spelling: (mat'-taw) Short Definition: downward. Word Origin ...
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3381. yarad -- to come or go down, descend
... to descend, to go downwards to a lower region, as the shore. A primitive root;
to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally ...
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Library

Christ's Birth
... Meanwhile the Blessed Virgin, borne up in ecstasy, was now gazing downwards, adoring
her God, whose Mother she had become and who lay on the earth before her ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xi christs birth.htm

Religious Sects and Parties
... While the popes were thus trying to lord it over all men, from the emperor downwards,
there were many who hated their doctrines and would not allow their ...
/.../chapter xix religious sects and.htm

That the High and the Next Way to Heaven is Run by Desires, and ...
... should ascend bodily and thereafter send the Holy Ghost bodily, then it was more
seemly that it was upwards and from above than either downwards and from ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the sixtieth chapter.htm

This Region of Light must be Material if it is Joined to the ...
... four squares, three white and one black; then suppose the three white pieces joined
as one, and conceive them as infinite upwards and downwards, and backwards ...
/.../chapter 21 name region of.htm

Of the Antipodes, the Heaven, and the Stars.
... or that the things which with us are in a recumbent position, with them hang in
an inverted direction? that the crops and trees grow downwards? ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xxiv of the antipodes the.htm

Hence Let Him that is Able, Follow with his Understanding Thy ...
... how speak of the weight of evil desires, downwards to the steep abyss; and how charity
raises up again by Thy Spirit which was borne above the waters? ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter vii hence let him.htm

That the Holy Spirit Brings us to God.
... whom shall I tell this? How speak of the weight of lustful desires, pressing
downwards to the steep abyss? and how charity raises ...
/.../the confessions and letters of st/chapter vii that the holy spirit.htm

Why the Holy Spirit was Only "Borne Over" the Waters.
... [1197] The body by its own weight gravitates towards its own place. Weight goes
not downward only, but to its own place. Fire tends upwards, a stone downwards. ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/chapter ix why the holy spirit.htm

More Difficulties of the Atomic Theory.
... "But if any one say that atoms of a fiery quality, being joined together, formed
a body, and because the quality of fire does not tend downwards, but upwards ...
/.../unknown/recognitions of clement /chapter xix more difficulties of the.htm

Doctrine of Atoms Untenable.
... they say that those corpuscles, which they call atoms, are of different qualities:
that some are moist, and therefore heavy, and tending downwards; others dry ...
/.../unknown/recognitions of clement /chapter xvii doctrine of atoms untenable.htm

Thesaurus

Downwards (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (adv.) From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move,
roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. ...Downwards (2 Occurrences). ...
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Downward (10 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (adv.) Alt. of Downwards. 2. (a.) Moving or
extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward ...
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Dowry (5 Occurrences)

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Upwards (18 Occurrences)
... Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards?
and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth? (DBY). ...
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Lapwing (2 Occurrences)
... It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards,
downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. ...
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Incumbent (1 Occurrence)
... one of them. 4. (a.) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on,
something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird. 5. (n.) A ...
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Downpour (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or
continuous shower. Multi-Version Concordance Downpour (4 Occurrences). ...
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Descending (23 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descend. 2. (a.) of or pertaining to descent; moving
downwards. Multi-Version Concordance Descending (23 Occurrences). ...
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Disembowelled (1 Occurrence)
... Acts 1:18 (Now having bought a piece of ground with the money paid for his wickedness
he fell there with his face downwards, and, his body bursting open, he ...
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Descend (34 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) 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 ...
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Bible Concordance

Downwards (2 Occurrences)

Acts 1:18 (Now having bought a piece of ground with the money paid for his wickedness he fell there with his face downwards, and, his body bursting open, he became disembowelled.
(WEY)

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?
(DBY)

Subtopics

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Downward (10 Occurrences)

Dowry (5 Occurrences)

Upwards (18 Occurrences)

Lapwing (2 Occurrences)

Incumbent (1 Occurrence)

Downpour (4 Occurrences)

Descending (23 Occurrences)

Disembowelled (1 Occurrence)

Descend (34 Occurrences)