Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ascend

Ascend ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb

[Latin 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
The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. — Addison

Formerly used with up.

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.

Ascend , transitive verb

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.