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verb

Ascend 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 v. i. (past & past part. ascended; pres. part. ascending)

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." Note: Formerly used with up. "The smoke of it ascended up to heaven."

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.

Synonyms: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.

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"Ascend" Quotes from Famous Books

... my companion wished to ascend the Scott monument, visit a friend at the University, and buy a plaid rug at one of the shops in Princess Street; while I proposed to look up the footprints of Bobbie Burns and John Knox. He said, "Confound John Knox!" I answered, "You evidently ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... laughing when the sound of a clanking chain echoed dismally from the cellar. Instantly silence fell upon the newcomers upon the first floor, followed by a—"Wotinel's that?" Two of the men had approached the staircase and started to ascend it. Slowly the uncanny clanking drew closer to the first floor. The girl on the bed ...

— The Oakdale Affair • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... "the ascent of the mind towards God." But when prayer is inattentive the mind does not ascend towards God. ...

— On Prayer and The Contemplative Life • St. Thomas Aquinas

... this gigantic granite jewel which is as light as a bit of lace, covered with towers, with slender belfries to which spiral staircases ascend, and which raise their strange heads that bristle with chimeras, with devils, with fantastic animals, with monstrous flowers, and which are joined together by finely carved arches, to the blue sky by day, and to the black sky ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... Confederacy appears to be rising, and I doubt not it will continue to ascend until the rose-water policy now pursued by the Northern army is superseded by one more determined and vigorous. We should look more to the interests of the North, and less to those of the South. We should visit on the aiders, abettors, and ...

— The Citizen-Soldier - or, Memoirs of a Volunteer • John Beatty

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