ascend

ASCEND', verb intransitive [Latin ascendo, from scando, to mount or climb.] 1. To move upwards; to mount; to go up; to rise, whether in air or water, or upon a material object. 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, etc. 3. To proceed from modern to ancient times; to recur to former ages; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity. 4. In a corresponding sense, to proceed in a line towards ancestors; as, to ascend to our first progenitors. 5. To rise as a star; to proceed or come above the horizon. 6. In music, to rise in vocal utterance; to pass from any note to one more acute. ASCEND', verb transitive To go or move upwards upon, as to ascend a hill or ladder; or to climb, as to ascend a tree.