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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr & vb
n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere ad + scandere to climb,
mount. See {Scan}.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up to rise; -- opposed to
{descend}.
Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring.
I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx
17.
Note: Formerly used with up
The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.
2. To rise, in a figurative sense to proceed from an
inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects,
from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient
times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as our
inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to
our first progenitor.
Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ascend \As*cend"\, v. t.
To go or move upward upon or along to climb; to mount; to go
up the top of as to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a
river, a throne.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ascend
v : travel up "We ascended the mountain" [syn: {go up}] [ant: {descend}]
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