[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That condescends; characterized by, or showing, condescension. Now, usually, Making a show, or assuming the air, of condescension; patronizing.
1707. Watts, Hymn. How condescending, and how kind, Was God’s eternal Son! Ibid. (a. 1748), (J.). A very humble and condescending air.
1780. Cowper, Table Talk, 138. Standing as if struck to stone While condescending Majesty looks on.
1881. Goldw. Smith, Lect. & Ess., 199. The condescending manner of a German prince.
1883. Froude, Short Stud., IV. II. iii. 199. He was never condescending with us, never didactic or authoritative.
† 2. Consenting, agreeing. Obs.
1654. Earl Orrery, Parthenissa (1676), 376. I was often condescending to the death of what you loved.
3. Sc. Particularizing, going into details.
1755. Guthrie’s Trial, 97 (Jam.). That universal conviction is not general … but it is particular and condescending.
