a. Obs. [ad. med.L. condēscensīv-us, f. condēscens- ppl. stem of condēscendĕre: see -IVE.] Characterized by or given to condescension.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1810), II. 240. It … rendereth him civil, condescensive, kind and helpful to those who are in a meaner state.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 63. 1/1. A condescensive accommodation to Humane Capacity.
1747. E. Poston, Pratler, I. 137. Most of them are … so condescensive to leave it to me to chuse.
Hence † Condescensively adv., -ness.
1652. Sparke, Prim. Devot. (1663), 501. Let us exercise … condescensiveness of spirit, in all our transactions with our meanest brethren.
1827. G. S. Faber, Orig. Expiat. Sacr., 268. The rite was condescensively adopted … from the Paganism of Egypt.
