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reascend, v.|riːəˈsɛnd|
[re- 5 a.]
To ascend again: a. intr. (Cf. ascend 1–4, 7–10.)
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 4088 Crist descendid to helle.. so to heven is he reascendit. 1594Spenser Amoretti lxxxvi, I wish that day would shortly reascend. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 166, I reascend to the nintith one Epistle, from whence I will deduce that which followes. a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 134 The mercury re-ascended to its first stations. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 14 How shall he..be able to re⁓ascend in the state of his weakness? 1814Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary II. 355 How many degraded sovereigns have re-ascended from a dungeon to a throne? 1850De Quincey in ‘H. A. Page’ Life II. xvii. 67 Up from the river banks you behold it reascending.
b. trans. (Cf. ascend 5–6.)
1615Chapman Odyss. xx. 86 The Goddesse..re-ascended the Olympian skies. 1624Massinger Renegado iii. v, To re-ascend that glorious height we fell from. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 120 Till they the Lunar Mountains re-ascend. 1781Cowper Truth 395 She..As soon shall rise and reascend the throne. 1891T. Hardy Tess lvi, She heard Tess re-ascend the stairs to the first floor.
Hence reaˈscending vbl. n. and ppl. a. So reaˈscendant, -ent a., reaˈscendancy, -ency, reaˈscension.
1611Florio, Risalita, a reascending or getting vp againe. 1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 92 The re-ascending Quick⁓silver will never totally..fill the Tube. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. clxxiv, ‘Arms and the Man’, whose reascending star Rose o'er an empire.
1668Milton P.L. vii. Argument, The Angels celebrate..his reascention into Heaven. 1808Bentham Let. to Ld. Holland Wks. 1843 X. 440 Since the reascension of this thinking..great court has, in my absence, been paid to him. 1868Milman St. Paul's 237 St. Paul's witnessed the triumph of reascendant Roman Catholicism. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. (1886) 110 He described this re-ascension of the Christ as a return ‘to His own pleroma’. 1885Cornh. Mag. Mar. 267 The eventual reascendency of Brahmanism. |