ppl. a. Of good descent.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., V. v. 303. Stay, Sir King. This man is better then the man he slew, As well descended as thy selfe.
1650. Heath, Clarastella, 13. But she is high and wel-discended; true; My birth stiles me as freeborn too.
1828. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. 269. A rich and well-descended country gentleman.
