Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring.
I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
17.
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.
{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.