资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb,
   mount. See {Scan}.]
   1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to
      {descend}.

            Higher yet that star ascends.         --Bowring.

            I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
                                                  17.

   Note: Formerly used with up.

               The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.

   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 note to another more acute, etc.; as, our
      inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to
      our first progenitor.

   Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.