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   Ascend , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ascended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ascending.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See Scan.]
   To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
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   Higher yet that star ascends.
   Bowring.
   
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   I ascend unto my father and your father.
   John xx. 17.
   
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   Formerly used with up.
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   The smoke of it ascended up to heaven.
   Addison.
   
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   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.
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   Syn. -- To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
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   Ascending, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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   Ascending latitude (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- 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. Herschel. -- 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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