ascend

[as·cend]

To ascend is to move or travel upwards. You've heard about how we ascend to Heaven after we die? Well, that's because Heaven is above us, so we get to go up!

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To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

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come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"

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slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"

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go along towards (a river''s) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"

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become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King''s death"

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go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"


v. i.
To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

v. i.
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.

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.


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.
I ascend unto my father and your father.
Formerly used with up.
The smoke of it ascended up to heaven.
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.

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.

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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.

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