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Webster 1913 Edition
Ascend
As-cend′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Ascended
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ascending
.] 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.
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.
As-cend′
,Verb.
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 throneWebster 1828 Edition
Ascend
ASCEND'
,Verb.
I.
1.
To move upwards; to mount; to go up; to rise, whether in air or water, or upon a material object.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, &c.3.
To proceed from modern to ancient times; to recur to former ages; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.4.
In a corresponding sense, to proceed in a line towards ancestors; as, to ascend to our first progenitors.5.
To rise as a star; to proceed or come above the horizon.6.
In music, to rise in vocal utterance; to pass from any note to one more acute.ASCEND'
,Verb.
T.