dēscensĭo, ōnis, f. [descendo] (postAug.), a going down, descending.
I Prop.: balinearum, into the bath , Plin. 20, 17, 69, § 178: Tiberina, the sail down the Tiber , Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 70: grando in descensione saltus, upon the thickets , Vulg. Isa. 32, 19.—Hence, *
II Meton., the bath itself , Gr. ἐμβάσεις, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 26.