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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)

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." Note: 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.

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

adjective

Ascending adj. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite.

Ascending latitude (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet.

Ascending line (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending.

Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northern node.

Ascending series. (Math.)

(a)

A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity.

(b)

A series in which each term is greater than the preceding.

Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.

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Etymology of 'Ascending'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ascending" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the noonday stillness; came the slow afternoon, the sun declined, and every hour of that day had been long, long! One would have said that it was the longest day of the year. Throughout it, dominant upon its ascending ground, white, impregnable, and silent as a sepulchre, rose the fortress. Before the fortress, slumberous also, couched the long, low fortification of stone and earthwork commanding in its turn the road through the tunal. In the town below, alcalde ...

— Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston

... on the steps ascending the platform were seated William Lloyd Garrison and James Mott, side by side with men of the darkest hue. The colored people scattered through the audience seemed quite at their ease, and were evidently received on grounds of perfect ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... on the old man's brow, for he was amiable by nature, and he had been rendered more amiable that morning by having had a pleasant chat, while ascending the mountain, with Mabberly and Jackman. The latter he had begun facetiously to style the "Woods and Forester." The shooting party had left him there, according to previous arrangement, and the old gentleman had seated himself ...

— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne

... in sight the smith's fair dwelling And they came to Ilma's homestead, And the smoke in streaks ascended, And the smoke rose thickly upward, From the house in wreaths arising, Up amid the clouds ascending. ...

— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous

... make his perambulation by first ascending the hill by the old carriage-road, passing several villas (see list) secluded by dense shrubberies and large trees; a circumstance little to be regretted, as their chief boast is the amenity of their location. But through the tall plantations on the right our eye will be delightfully ...

— Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight • George Brannon

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