condescend

1. (intransitive)Examples: "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."intransitiveobsolete

2. (intransitive)Examples: "The boss condescended not to sack him after much persuasion from his coworkers."; "Truli I knowe him [the Devil] to wel, and haue obeyed him a little to much in condiſcenting to ſome folies."; "Be of the ſame mind one towards another. Minde not high things, but condeſcend to men of low eſtate. Be not wiſe in your owne conceits."figurativelyintransitive

3. (intransitive)Examples: "Miss Crawley's graciousness was also remarkable. She continued her raptures about little Amelia, talked about her before her face as if she were a doll, or a servant, or a picture, and admired her with the most benevolent wonder possible. I admire that admiration which the genteel world sometimes extends to the commonalty. There is no more agreeable object in life than to see May Fair folks condescending."; ""You must know," said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, "that I have no heart—if that has anything to do with my memory.""; "Ermine never let any one be condescending to her, and conducted the conversation with her usual graceful good breeding, […]"figurativelyintransitive

4. (intransitive)Examples: "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."figurativelyintransitive

5. (intransitive)Examples: "Than were they condeſended that Kyng Arthure and syr mordred ſhold mete betwyxte bothe theyr hooſtes and eueryche of them shold brynge fourtene persones […]"; "Careles and shamlesse, / Thriftles and gracelesse, / Together are bended, / And so condyscended, / That the commune welth / Shall neuer haue good helth, […]"; "For thoſe iuſtly deſerue yͤ ſworde, which with no reaſonable condicions, wil condeſcende vnto peace."Antonyms: discondescendfigurativelyintransitiveobsolete

6. (intransitive)Examples: "Henricus the Emperour [Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor] fearing þᵉ 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: […]"; "Theodoſius gave eare & condiſcended to his vvords, […]"; "Can they think me ſo broken, ſo debas'd / VVith corporal ſervitude, that my mind ever / VVill condeſcend to ſuch abſurd commands?"figurativelyintransitiveobsolete