[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ascend \ascend"\, 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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   note: 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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see also:
ascended ascending scan descend 

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