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.
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. 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.
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.
