Ascend
[ə'send] or [ə'sɛnd]
Definition
(verb.) travel up, 'We ascended the mountain'; 'go up a ladder'; 'The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope'.
(verb.) move to a better position in life or to a better job; 'She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great .
(verb.) slope upwards; 'The path ascended to the top of the hill'.
(verb.) go along towards (a river's) source; 'The boat ascended the Delaware'.
(verb.) become king or queen; 'She ascended to the throne after the King's death'.
(verb.) go back in order of genealogical succession; 'Inheritance may not ascend linearly'.
(verb.) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; 'the vine climbed up the side of the house'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
(v. i.) 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.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Rise, arise, aspire, mount, soar, tower, CLIMB, go up.[2]. Go backward (in the order of time).
v. a. CLIMB, scale, get up, go up.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rise, mount, soar, surmount, go_up, climb, tower, scale
ANT:Fall, descend, {[sinl]?}
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Definition
v.i. to climb or mount up: to rise literally or figuratively: to go backwards in the order of time.—v.t. to climb or go up on: to mount.—adjs. Ascend′able Ascend′ible.—Ascending rhythm in prosody a rhythm in which the arsis follows the thesis as an iambic or anapéŽ tic rhythm: opposed to descending rhythms as the trochaic and dactylic.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you reach the extreme point of ascent, or top of steps, without stumbling, it is good; otherwise, you will have obstacles to overcome before the good of the day is found.
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Examples
- Falsehoods and illusions ascend to take their place; the prodigal goes back into the country of the Lotophagi or drones, and openly dwells there. Plato. The Republic.
- It appeared to ascend them, not very promptly or spontaneously, yet with a display of stride and clatter meant to be insulting. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That they can ascend and descend hills of considerable elevation, with facility and safety. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A small page admitted us, and we began at once to ascend the broad, well-carpeted stair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We had arranged the evening before to ascend the Cathedral of Notre Dame, with Victor Hugo's noble romance for our guide. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that she could not ascend. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Cautiously we ascended. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A man's feet ascended the stairs. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Eustacia turned, entered the house, and ascended to the front bedroom, where a shaded light was burning. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- During the few minutes that elapsed while I was taking him in, the air revived him, and he ascended the steps of the machine with my assistance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A happy party it appeared to her, all interested in one object: cheerful beyond a doubt, for the sound of merriment ascended even to her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The singing again commenced, and rang through the high-roofed rooms, while we silently ascended the stair-case. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The door clashed, the voices and the feet came on, and the prison-keeper slowly ascended the stairs, followed by a guard of soldiers. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He ascends to the top of a precipice by walking up the sloping hill behind, and he thus becomes practically acquainted with the principle of the _inclined plane_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He ascends the door-steps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Yes, it is exactly behind the house; begins at a little distance, and ascends for half a mile to the extremity of the grounds. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She ascends to the upper apartment and warms the bed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The wings are strongly flapped, striking forward and downward, and the bird quickly ascends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We see the same fact in ascending mountains, and sometimes it is quite remarkable how abruptly, as Alph. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He then commenced ascending the mountain directly in his front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The bony remains discovered at Piltdown in Sussex display a creature still ascending only very gradually from the sub-human. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I looked at the blank wall: it seemed a sky thick with ascending stars,--every one lit me to a purpose or delight. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- More than that it did not do, for she refrained even from ascending the bank and looking over. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Ascending to the roof of the building I watched her for hours, until finally she was lost in the dim vistas of the distance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I leaving my work on the road, the sun going to bed, the carriage of the Marquis slowly ascending the hill, he hanging by the chain--like this. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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