01 v. i. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
imp. & p. p.
Ascended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ascending
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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.“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.