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Ascend

verb

(past & past part. ascended; pres. part. ascending)

Travel up,. Synonym: go up. "Go up a ladder" , "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

Go back in order of genealogical succession.

Become king or queen.

Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils. Synonym: climb up.

Go along towards (a river's) source.

Slope upwards.

Come up, of celestial bodies. Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise. "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"

Move to a better position in life or to a better job. Synonyms: move up, rise.

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"Ascend" Quotes from Famous Books

... domes inwrought with fretted gold, The sumptuous pavements veins or pearl unfold, Arch piled on arch with columned pride ascend, Grove linked to grove their ...

— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various

... fringing her green shore, From broad plantations where swart freemen bend Bronzed backs in willing labor, from her store Of golden fruit, from stream, from town, ascend Life-currents of pure health: Her aims shall ...

— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. I (of II.), Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic • Emma Lazarus

... into the designs of God, ought we not to recognize the fact that by reason of their general diversity intelligences could be classed in spheres? From the sphere where the least degree of intelligence gleamed, to the most translucent souls who could see the road by which to ascend to God, was there not an ascending scale of spiritual gift? And did not spirits of the same sphere understand each other like brothers in soul, in flesh, ...

— The Exiles • Honore de Balzac

... learn that? My reply is that I watch the way in which my seniors go upstairs. If they run nimbly up when summoned, I am pretty sure that they are likely to remain on the books as long as I am, and become admirals. But if they drag their legs up after them, and ascend at a slow pace, I feel certain that they will be placed on the retired list, or perhaps go out of the world altogether. On hearing this my respected seniors have generally cast angry looks at me; and when they are summoned I follow them out. The first few steps they go up nimbly enough, ...

— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston

... for the first time in my life I was to ascend a ship's mast. Had I been well and hearty, perhaps I should have felt a little shaky at the thought; but as I was then, weak and faint, ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

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