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ASCEND', v.i. [L. ascendo, from scando, to mount or climb.]

1. To move upwards; to mount; to go up; to rise, whether in air or water, or upon a material object.

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, &c.

3. To proceed from modern to ancient times; to recur to former ages; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

4. In a corresponding sense, to proceed in a line towards ancestors; as, to ascend to our first progenitors.

5. To rise as a star; to proceed or come above the horizon.

6. In music, to rise in vocal utterance; to pass from any note to one more acute.

ASCEND', v.t. To go or move upwards upon, as to ascend a hill or ladder; or to climb, as to ascend a tree.

1913 Definition
Ascend (ascend)
v. i.((?))
As*cend"
[imp. *** p. p. Ascended] p. pr. *** vb. n. Ascending.] [L. 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.

    Formerly used with up.

    The smoke of it ascended up to heaven.
    Addison.

  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.

    Syn. -- To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.

  3. 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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Noah Says...
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
 History of the United States :: 1832 




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