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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]: Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as an ascending kite. -- {As*cend"ing*ly}, adv {Ascending latitude} (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. --Ferguson. {Ascending line} (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. {Ascending node} having that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the {northern node}. --Herschel. {Ascending series}. (Math.) a A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. b A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. {Ascending signs}, signs east of the meridian. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ascending adj : moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed" [syn: {ascending(a)}] [ant: {descending(a)}] n : the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: {rise}, {ascent}, {ascension}]
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