Ascend (&unr_;), 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.
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Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring.
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I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.
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Formerly used with up.
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The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. Addison.
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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.
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Syn. -- To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
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