Thomas Aquinas

On the Activities of Angels

English Etymology: Prefixes

...Therefore Aristotle, in his On Sleep, assigning the cause of the apparitions of dreams, says that when an animal sleeps, because a lot of blood descends into the sensitive principle, at the same time motions descend, that is impressions left from the motions of the senses which are preserved in the sensual spirits, and they move the sensitive principle, in such a way that an apparition arises, just as if the sensitive principle were then being changed by the exterior things themselves...

The Latin prefix de- means "down or away from," and appears in a lot of English words. Which of the following English words use that prefix?

descend
detach
detest
degrade
despondent
desert
delicious
detain
desist
demand

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