As·cend v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ascended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ascending.]
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.
Note: 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.