Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ascend"
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) 1.7 (wn)
ascend
v 1: travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder";
"The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" [syn:
{go up}] [ant: {descend}]
2: go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance
may not ascend linearly"
3: become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the
King's death"
4: go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the
Delaware"
5: slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
6: come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises": "The sun
uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
[syn: {rise}, {come up}, {uprise}] [ant: {set}]
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