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.
I ascend unto my father and your father.
The smoke of it ascended up to heaven.
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.