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(quote-book) XXII. Of the Man of Honour.|title=Humane Prudence, or The Art by which a Man may Raise Himself and His Fortune to Grandeur.(nb...)|edition=9th|location=London|publisher=(...) Richard Sare,(nb...)|year_published=1702|page=141|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/humanprudenceora00debr/page/141/mode/1up|oclc=796190643|passage=To ſtoop to any ſordid lovv Action, is to imitate the Kite, vvhich flyeth high in the Air, yet vouchſafes to condeſcend to Carrion upon the Ground.
(senseid) To come down from a superior position and do something; to deign; to stoop.
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(RQ:Latimer Notable Sermon) to wel, and haue obeyed him a little to much in condiſcenting to ſome folies.
(RQ:King James Version) as “Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.”
(RQ:Dryden Indian Emperor)
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
(RQ:Byron Don Juan)|footer=Used in a positive or neutral sense.
(quote-book)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside; and sold by L. and G. Seeley,(nb...)|page=58|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWNjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA58|oclc=557984188|passage=O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who hast set thy glory above the heavens! And yet thou condescendedst to be my God and my portion for ever.
(RQ:Anne Bronte Agnes Grey)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) condescended to imitate the style of the street ballads.
(RQ:Froude Short Studies)
(RQ:Alger Struggling Upward)
(senseid) To treat someone as though inferior; to down to someone; to patronize.
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
(RQ:Dickens Great Expectations)
(RQ:Yonge Clever Woman)
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)
''Chiefly followed by'' on ''or'' upon: to go into detail; to particularize, to specify.
(quote-journal)|volume=XXXVII|page=249|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.05768/page/249/mode/1up|issn=0010-7565|oclc=1564974|passage=The whole of his work consists of digested and transformed experience presented to you under arrangements new to himself. It is all true, except as to "the way it is put," and you feel that it is true—that is, if the work be good of the kind; but you can not "condescend upon particulars" as to when and where it all happened.
To agree to something; to accede, to assent, to consent; also, to reach an agreement.
(antonyms)
(RQ:Malory Le Morte Darthur)|translation=Then were they condescended that (w) and Sir (w) should meet betwixt both their hosts and every of them should bring fourteen persons(nb..)|brackets=on|termlang=en
(RQ:Skelton Poetical Works)
(RQ:Guevara North Diall of Princes)|folio=6|verso=1|column=1|passage=For thoſe iuſtly deſerue y&868; ſworde, which with no reaſonable condicions, wil condeſcende vnto peace.
(RQ:Foxe Actes and Monuments), of Bayeux|Thomas (quote-gloss) gaue ouer, condescending that the firste of hys prouince should begin at Humber.
(RQ:Grafton Chronicle) haue fully condiſcended and vtterly determined to make humble peticion vnto the puyſſaunt prince the Lorde protectour (quote-gloss), that it maye like his grace at our humble requeſt, to take vpon him the guyding and gouernaunce of this realme, (..)
(RQ:Sidney Arcadia)
(RQ:Hooker Laws)|page=428|passage=And aſſone as the ſtate of the Church could admit thereof, they eaſily condeſcended to thinke it moſt naturall and moſt fit, that God ſhould receiue as before of all men his ancient accuſtomed revenevves of Tithes.
(RQ:Markham Cavelarice)
(RQ:Milton Eikonoklastes) hovv unvvillingly and vvith vvhat mentall reſervation he condeſcended againſt his ovvn intereſt to remove it out of the Peers houſe, hath bin ſhovvn alreadie.
To way or yield in a deferential manner; to be amenable or compliant.
(RQ:Foxe Actes and Monuments) fearing þ(sup) vaine thūderbolt of the Popes curse, talking with his princes, and perswaded by his frendes, was fain to condescend to the vnreasonable conditions of the Pope: (..)
(RQ:Marcellinus Holland Roman Historie)
(RQ:Milton Samson)
To graciously give; to vouchsafe.
(RQ:Hall Jesus) asks thee (quote-gloss) a queſtion (..) thou condeſcendeſt to a mild and full (though ſecret) ſatisfaction.
(RQ:Strype Ecclesiastical Memorials)|chapter=Numb(quote-gloss) XXIV. Dr. Gardiner, Dr. Fox, & Sir Gregory de Cassalis, the Kings Ambassadors, unto the Cardinall. From Orviet.|page=62|passage=His Ho(quote-gloss) hath, & contynually doth deſire them vvith ſpede to condeſcend to oon opinion, or other, & to ſhevv their ſentence in theſe Articles, VVhether in ther opinions the cauſes vvherupon the Matrimony ſhold be declared nought, & the Diſpenſation void, be ſufficient in the lavv, or not.
(RQ:Tupper Twins)
To secretly make plans, usually to about a bad or illegal result; to conspire, to plot.
(RQ:Grafton Chronicle)
To treat (someone) as though inferior; to talk down to (someone); to patronize.
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(quote-book)|location=Morrisville, N.C.|publisher=Lulu.com|page=54|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VDaAkb3TbzUC&pg=PA54|isbn=978-1-4303-2188-0|passage=I didn't mean to condescend you, Mr. Shreck.
(quote-book)&93;|publisher=Jaron Lee Knuth|isbn=978-1-4564-5799-0|passage=I'm not trying to condescend you, Ben.
(quote-book) Does my anger deserve your condescension? / ANDIE. I wasn't condescending you; I was just asking. / THOMAS. No. You said "angry black man." Like my anger only exists in a stereotype. That's condescending. I mean, does it occur to you that I might have something to be angry about? A reason that has nothing to do with my being black?
''Often preceded by the pronoun'' it: to agree to (something); to consent.
(RQ:Holinshed Chronicles) Earle of Leicester, Baron of Denbigh, &c: for the Gouernment of the Said Low Countries: Translated out of Dutch into English, as followeth|pages=1420–1421|pageref=1421|passage=And furthermore, we commit the adminiſtration & vſe of policie and iuſtice ouer the foreſaid vnited prouinces, and aſſociat cities and members of the ſame into his hands, (..) with eſpeciall power to collect profits, and receiue, and adminiſtrat all the contributions which are agreed and condeſcended, or ſhall hereafter he conſented or agreed, to the maintenance of the warres: (..)