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Definition of Ascend
As`cend´ | v. i. | 1. | To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; - opposed to descend. | | 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. | | v. t. | 1. | 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. |
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