Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ascended"

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.

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