Ascend(v. i.)
- To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
Ascend(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.
Ascend(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.
Ascendant(n.)
- The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
Ascendant(n.)
- Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
Ascendant(n.)
- An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.