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3 definitions found 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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