ASCEND

ascend. ascend, goe vp, or clime vp

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ascend. Ascend, v. to go up, rise, recur back in time

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As‐cend″ (�), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ascended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ascending.] [[L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See Scan.]] 1. 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. Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. Addison. 2. 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.