desinent

comparative more desinent · superlative most desinent

1. obsoleteEnding; forming an end; lowermost.

   In front of this sea were placed six tritons, in moving and sprightly actions, their upper parts human, save that their hairs were blue, as partaking of the sea-colour: their desinent parts fish, mounted above their heads, and all varied in disposition.

   1605, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness