ASCEND

vi to move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise;

— opposed to descend.

2. ascend ·vt 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.

3. ascend ·vi 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.