Ascend

v. i. [imp. & p. p. ASCENDED; p. pr. & vb. n. ASCENDING.] [Lat. ascendere, from ad and scandere, to climb, mount.]

1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring.
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 tone to another more acute, &c.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

Syn.—To rise; arise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.