Musical term with several meanings.
Sing by changing register; sing by yodeling.
1 He risked glancing up and saw that the descant spell was working.
2 It was very pleasant to hear Mr. Thorne descant on this matter.
3 Presently was mingled with the bird's descant low singing of another kind.
4 He then proceeded to descant upon the general wrongs of horses.
5 Presently he led out an animal and began to descant upon its merits.
6 Aliena having read over his sonnet, began thus pleasantly to descant upon it:
7 But you descant ; Is baptism one of the laws of Christ?
8 His amorous descant never fails him: his lute is always by his side.
9 Gladly, did time permit, would I descant upon their great and varied merits.
10 Presently was mingled with the bird's descant another kind of singing.
11 She will not descant upon bodily ailments in the drawing-room or at the table.
12 When he heard its descant , he burst into tears and repeated the following verses:
13 But space forbids us thus to descant on the details of all active exercises.
14 Theologians descant pleasantly upon free moral agency; but they should begin by admitting individual rights.
15 Even now a wood thrush closed his last descant in flute-like notes across the river.
16 Admiration for Priestley increases on hearing him descant on the people about him-onthe natives-
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