ascendv.

Brit.

/əˈsɛnd/, U.S.

/əˈsɛnd/

Forms: Also Middle English assende, Middle English–1500s ascende, 1600s adsend. past participle 1500s ascend.

Etymology: < Latin ascendĕre, adscendĕre, < ad- to + -scendĕre = scandĕre to climb. The perfect tenses were sometimes conjugated with be.

I. Literal senses.

1. intransitive (occasionally emphasized by a redundant up) To go or come up, originally by a gradual motion, to a relatively higher position.

a. of voluntary agents: To climb up, travel up, walk up; to soar, mount.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)]

styc825

astyc950

ariseOE

upstyOE

to step upOE

upcomec1000

to come upOE

to go upOE

upwendc1200

runge?c1225

amountc1275

upgoa1325

heavec1325

uparise1340

ascend1382

higha1393

lifta1400

risea1400

skilla1400

uprisea1400

raisec1400

rearc1400

surmount1430

to get upc1450

transcenda1513

springa1525

upmounta1560

assurge?1567

hove1590

surgea1591

tower1618

hoist1647

upheave1649

to draw up1672

spire1680

insurrect1694

soar1697

upsoar1726

uprear1828

higher1889

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > travel in upward direction

to turn upa1375

ascend1382

mount1440

hilla1552

upturn1818

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. i. 22 Helchana stiede up..for to offre to the Lord..his vowe. And Anna assendide not.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. ii. 4 The hill in whiche Moyses ascendide.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum ii. xx. 339 Lette downe now the corde to me, that I may assende.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) John vi. f. cxxix^v If ye shall se the sonne off man ascende vp where he was before.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 11 The Noble Brutus is ascended: Silence.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 198 Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven Gate ascend .

1773 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. II. 239 Apollonius..is..said to have ascended into heaven.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 10 He,..Ascending tired, heavily slept till morn.

b. of inanimate things: To rise, be raised, move to a higher level.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of inanimates

ascendc1530

mount1577

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kiij ^v Whan he wolde ete, the apples doth ascende.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F4 Water will not ascend higher, than the leuell of the first spring head, from whence it descendeth.

1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 184 Subterraneal Steams..adscending into the Air.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 42 Ascending slow..the curling smoke Melts in the impurpled air.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 82 A cloud..With the dawn ascending.

c. of sounds: To rise in the air, or so as to be heard aloud.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > be or become audible [verb (intransitive)]

bursta1325

risea1325

sounda1325

arisec1330

wrestc1400

uprise?a1513

to meet the eye (also ear)1645

ascend1667

to breeze up1752

well1825

to break stillness1853

fade1879

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 499 The noyse Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Towrs.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 83 Voice always ascends, the Vibration moving most naturally upward.

1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 187 A roar of shouts ascends.

2. Of planetary bodies, signs of the zodiac, etc.: (a) spec. to come above the horizon; (b) gen. to move towards the zenith.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)] > rise

to come upeOE

arisec975

risec1175

ascendc1400

the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)] > rise > towards zenith

climba1400

ascendc1400

mount1594

speel1718

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §40. 51 Iuppiter..ascendit with 14 degrees of pisces.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §3. 15 To knowe..the degree of any signe that assendith on the est Orisonte.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 5^v Whan the planetes..ascended and whan they discended.

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Bii To morne as soone as Tytan shall ascend.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxxii. f. 163^v Those signes that do ascend rightly, do descend obliquely.

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 18 I was born, Sir, when the Crab was ascending.

1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 14 All mild ascends the Moon's more sober light.

1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. 297 Less of the equator ascends with northern signs.

3. To rise by process of growth or construction; to be raised or reared, to erect itself. Only poetic. Cf. arise v. 16.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > become high(er) [verb (intransitive)]

astyc950

arisec1225

rise?a1400

rearc1400

heighten1567

stem1577

upclimb1582

taper1589

clamber?1611

shoot1648

relevate1661

ascend1667

spring1673

spear1822

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 722 Th' ascending pile Stood fixt her stately highth.

1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 14 Bid..Temples, worthier of the God, ascend.

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 6 Far to the right, where Appennine ascends.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 36 Exalt your heads ye oaks, ye pines ascend.

4. To slope upwards, lie along an ascending slope.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope > upwards

risea1398

climba1400

ascend1832

the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have upward direction > extend or slope upwards

risea1398

ascend1832

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > go or lead (of a road or path) [verb (intransitive)] > go upwards

ascend1832

the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have upward direction > extend or slope upwards > directly or to a height

rise?a1400

ascend1832

1832 Brannon Guide Isle Wight (1853) 96 This pretty village..is situated about a mile west of the town, ascending a hill.

1885 N.E.D. at Ascend Mod. The path ascends by the Red Tarn.

5. transitive. To go up by degrees to a relatively higher position upon; to walk up, climb, mount; hence, to go up to the top of, reach the summit of. to ascend a river: to go along it towards its source.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)]

styc825

staira1400

ascendc1400

mountc1500

conscenda1552

breast1718

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > go up (a hill, etc.)

climba1000

ascendc1400

breast1718

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > set a ship's course > ascend a river

ascend1776

c1400 Epiph. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 103 Wherefor of sort the hyll thei ben ascendyd.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. vii. 2 Quhil ascend ar thai The hill.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 12 Sept. (1965) I. 434 We begun to ascend Mount Cenis.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall xiii Their galleys ascended the river.

1851 W. H. Dixon W. Penn v. 167 Ascended the Delaware.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §2. 17 Next day I ascended the valley of Hasli.

6. To go up into or get up on (a place or object at a higher level); to mount. Obsolete exc. poetic, and in the phrase, now hardly more than figurative, ‘To ascend the throne’, the earliest cited instance of which shows the transition to this sense from 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > go up into or onto

scalec1380

amountc1572

aspire1581

endorse1594

mount1596

ascend1597

transcend1602

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. i. 56 Thou ladder wherewithall The mounting Bullingbrooke ascends my throne.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 154 Ascend my Chambers.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 1018 When as thou wilt thy stately horse ascend.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 932 When the male ascends the female.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 711 Ascend my Chariot.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlix. 185 The moment he ascended the throne.

1861 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops I. vii. 374 Edwy was permitted to ascend the throne.

II. Transferred and figurative senses.

7. intransitive. To proceed from the inferior to the superior; to rise in thought, degree of characteristic quality, social station, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)]

climbc1400

ascendc1550

soar1597

progress1612

develop1744

advance1875

bull1928

society > society and the community > social class > be ranked socially [verb (intransitive)] > climb socially

climba1240

risec1390

ascend1751

to rise from the ranks1798

social climb1929

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 15 Childir..incressis, quhil thai be ascendit to the perfyit stryntht of men.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 53 Painted glasse of a sanguine red will not ascend in powder above a murrey.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 512 In contemplation of created things By steps we may ascend to God.

1751 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) VI. iv. 67 A rash desire to ascend to a rank—for which God's providence has not designed us.

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) i. ii. 27 We shall ascend..beyond laws to a lawgiver.

8. Of or in respect of sounds: To rise in pitch.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [verb (intransitive)] > rise

risea1450

ascend1597

scale1859

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 81 Vnpossible to ascende..in continuall deduction without a discord.

1655 Campion's Art of composing Musick in Parts in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 4 If the Base shall ascend.

9. To go back in time (i.e. up the ‘stream of time’), or in order of genealogical succession.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [verb (intransitive)] > ascend

ascend1528

to go up1770

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. i Inherytaunce may lynyally descende, but nat lynyally assende.

a1800 W. Cowper tr. Greek Verses on Pedigree [They] from age to age Ascending, triumph their illustrious race.

1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. xi. 311 The eldest male of the eldest ascending line, the father, grandfather.

†10. intransitive. Of winds, etc.: To ‘rise.’ Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly > increase

rise?1520

fresh1599

to come up1647

freshen1669

ascend1715

to get up1834

to blow up1840

stiffen1844

to breeze up1867

to pipe up1901

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 478 As when the Winds, ascending by degrees, First move the whitening Surface of the Seas.

†11. causal. To raise in estimation, exalt. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)]

heavec825

higheOE

brightenOE

clarifya1340

glorifya1340

enhancec1374

stellifyc1384

biga1400

exalt?a1400

raisea1400

shrinea1400

to bear up?a1425

enhighc1440

erect?a1475

assumec1503

amount1523

dignifya1530

to set up1535

extol1545

enthronize1547

augment1567

sublimate?1567

sublime1568

assumptc1571

begoda1576

royalize1589

suscitate1598

swell1601

consecrate1605

realize1611

reara1616

sphere1615

ingreata1620

superexalta1626

soara1627

ascend1628

rise1628

embroider1629

apotheose1632

grandize1640

engreaten1641

engrandizea1652

mount1651

intronificate1653

magnificent1656

superposit1661

grandify1665

heroify1677

apotheosize1695

enthrone1699

aggrandize1702

pantheonize1801

hoist1814

princify1847

queen1880

heroize1887

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xix. sig. L7 They set him almost in the Throne of a Deitie; ascend him to an vnmouednesse.

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单词	ascend
释义	ascendv. Brit. /əˈsɛnd/, U.S. /əˈsɛnd/ Forms: Also Middle English assende, Middle English–1500s ascende, 1600s adsend. past participle 1500s ascend. Etymology: < Latin ascendĕre, adscendĕre, < ad- to + -scendĕre = scandĕre to climb. The perfect tenses were sometimes conjugated with be. I. Literal senses. 1. intransitive (occasionally emphasized by a redundant up) To go or come up, originally by a gradual motion, to a relatively higher position. a. of voluntary agents: To climb up, travel up, walk up; to soar, mount. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] styc825 astyc950 ariseOE upstyOE to step upOE upcomec1000 to come upOE to go upOE upwendc1200 runge?c1225 amountc1275 upgoa1325 heavec1325 uparise1340 ascend1382 higha1393 lifta1400 risea1400 skilla1400 uprisea1400 raisec1400 rearc1400 surmount1430 to get upc1450 transcenda1513 springa1525 upmounta1560 assurge?1567 hove1590 surgea1591 tower1618 hoist1647 upheave1649 to draw up1672 spire1680 insurrect1694 soar1697 upsoar1726 uprear1828 higher1889 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > travel in upward direction to turn upa1375 ascend1382 mount1440 hilla1552 upturn1818 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. i. 22 Helchana stiede up..for to offre to the Lord..his vowe. And Anna assendide not. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. ii. 4 The hill in whiche Moyses ascendide. c1440 Gesta Romanorum ii. xx. 339 Lette downe now the corde to me, that I may assende. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John vi. f. cxxix^v If ye shall se the sonne off man ascende vp where he was before. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 11 The Noble Brutus is ascended: Silence. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 198 Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven Gate ascend . View more context for this quotation 1773 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. II. 239 Apollonius..is..said to have ascended into heaven. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 10 He,..Ascending tired, heavily slept till morn. b. of inanimate things: To rise, be raised, move to a higher level. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of inanimates ascendc1530 mount1577 c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kiij ^v Whan he wolde ete, the apples doth ascende. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F4 Water will not ascend higher, than the leuell of the first spring head, from whence it descendeth. View more context for this quotation 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 184 Subterraneal Steams..adscending into the Air. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 42 Ascending slow..the curling smoke Melts in the impurpled air. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 82 A cloud..With the dawn ascending. c. of sounds: To rise in the air, or so as to be heard aloud. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > be or become audible [verb (intransitive)] bursta1325 risea1325 sounda1325 arisec1330 wrestc1400 uprise?a1513 to meet the eye (also ear)1645 ascend1667 to breeze up1752 well1825 to break stillness1853 fade1879 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 499 The noyse Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Towrs. View more context for this quotation 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 83 Voice always ascends, the Vibration moving most naturally upward. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 187 A roar of shouts ascends. 2. Of planetary bodies, signs of the zodiac, etc.: (a) spec. to come above the horizon; (b) gen. to move towards the zenith. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)] > rise to come upeOE arisec975 risec1175 ascendc1400 the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)] > rise > towards zenith climba1400 ascendc1400 mount1594 speel1718 c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §40. 51 Iuppiter..ascendit with 14 degrees of pisces. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §3. 15 To knowe..the degree of any signe that assendith on the est Orisonte. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 5^v Whan the planetes..ascended and whan they discended. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Bii To morne as soone as Tytan shall ascend. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxxii. f. 163^v Those signes that do ascend rightly, do descend obliquely. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 18 I was born, Sir, when the Crab was ascending. 1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 14 All mild ascends the Moon's more sober light. 1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. 297 Less of the equator ascends with northern signs. 3. To rise by process of growth or construction; to be raised or reared, to erect itself. Only poetic. Cf. arise v. 16. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > become high(er) [verb (intransitive)] astyc950 arisec1225 rise?a1400 rearc1400 heighten1567 stem1577 upclimb1582 taper1589 clamber?1611 shoot1648 relevate1661 ascend1667 spring1673 spear1822 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 722 Th' ascending pile Stood fixt her stately highth. View more context for this quotation 1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 14 Bid..Temples, worthier of the God, ascend. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 6 Far to the right, where Appennine ascends. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 36 Exalt your heads ye oaks, ye pines ascend. 4. To slope upwards, lie along an ascending slope. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope > upwards risea1398 climba1400 ascend1832 the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have upward direction > extend or slope upwards risea1398 ascend1832 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > go or lead (of a road or path) [verb (intransitive)] > go upwards ascend1832 the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have upward direction > extend or slope upwards > directly or to a height rise?a1400 ascend1832 1832 Brannon Guide Isle Wight (1853) 96 This pretty village..is situated about a mile west of the town, ascending a hill. 1885 N.E.D. at Ascend Mod. The path ascends by the Red Tarn. 5. transitive. To go up by degrees to a relatively higher position upon; to walk up, climb, mount; hence, to go up to the top of, reach the summit of. to ascend a river: to go along it towards its source. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] styc825 staira1400 ascendc1400 mountc1500 conscenda1552 breast1718 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > go up (a hill, etc.) climba1000 ascendc1400 breast1718 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > set a ship's course > ascend a river ascend1776 c1400 Epiph. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 103 Wherefor of sort the hyll thei ben ascendyd. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. vii. 2 Quhil ascend ar thai The hill. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 12 Sept. (1965) I. 434 We begun to ascend Mount Cenis. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall xiii Their galleys ascended the river. 1851 W. H. Dixon W. Penn v. 167 Ascended the Delaware. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §2. 17 Next day I ascended the valley of Hasli. 6. To go up into or get up on (a place or object at a higher level); to mount. Obsolete exc. poetic, and in the phrase, now hardly more than figurative, ‘To ascend the throne’, the earliest cited instance of which shows the transition to this sense from 5. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > go up into or onto scalec1380 amountc1572 aspire1581 endorse1594 mount1596 ascend1597 transcend1602 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. i. 56 Thou ladder wherewithall The mounting Bullingbrooke ascends my throne. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 154 Ascend my Chambers. View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 1018 When as thou wilt thy stately horse ascend. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 932 When the male ascends the female. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 711 Ascend my Chariot. View more context for this quotation 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlix. 185 The moment he ascended the throne. 1861 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops I. vii. 374 Edwy was permitted to ascend the throne. II. Transferred and figurative senses. 7. intransitive. To proceed from the inferior to the superior; to rise in thought, degree of characteristic quality, social station, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] climbc1400 ascendc1550 soar1597 progress1612 develop1744 advance1875 bull1928 society > society and the community > social class > be ranked socially [verb (intransitive)] > climb socially climba1240 risec1390 ascend1751 to rise from the ranks1798 social climb1929 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 15 Childir..incressis, quhil thai be ascendit to the perfyit stryntht of men. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 53 Painted glasse of a sanguine red will not ascend in powder above a murrey. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 512 In contemplation of created things By steps we may ascend to God. View more context for this quotation 1751 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) VI. iv. 67 A rash desire to ascend to a rank—for which God's providence has not designed us. 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) i. ii. 27 We shall ascend..beyond laws to a lawgiver. 8. Of or in respect of sounds: To rise in pitch. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [verb (intransitive)] > rise risea1450 ascend1597 scale1859 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 81 Vnpossible to ascende..in continuall deduction without a discord. 1655 Campion's Art of composing Musick in Parts in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 4 If the Base shall ascend. 9. To go back in time (i.e. up the ‘stream of time’), or in order of genealogical succession. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [verb (intransitive)] > ascend ascend1528 to go up1770 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. i Inherytaunce may lynyally descende, but nat lynyally assende. a1800 W. Cowper tr. Greek Verses on Pedigree [They] from age to age Ascending, triumph their illustrious race. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. xi. 311 The eldest male of the eldest ascending line, the father, grandfather. †10. intransitive. Of winds, etc.: To ‘rise.’ Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly > increase rise?1520 fresh1599 to come up1647 freshen1669 ascend1715 to get up1834 to blow up1840 stiffen1844 to breeze up1867 to pipe up1901 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 478 As when the Winds, ascending by degrees, First move the whitening Surface of the Seas. †11. causal. To raise in estimation, exalt. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)] heavec825 higheOE brightenOE clarifya1340 glorifya1340 enhancec1374 stellifyc1384 biga1400 exalt?a1400 raisea1400 shrinea1400 to bear up?a1425 enhighc1440 erect?a1475 assumec1503 amount1523 dignifya1530 to set up1535 extol1545 enthronize1547 augment1567 sublimate?1567 sublime1568 assumptc1571 begoda1576 royalize1589 suscitate1598 swell1601 consecrate1605 realize1611 reara1616 sphere1615 ingreata1620 superexalta1626 soara1627 ascend1628 rise1628 embroider1629 apotheose1632 grandize1640 engreaten1641 engrandizea1652 mount1651 intronificate1653 magnificent1656 superposit1661 grandify1665 heroify1677 apotheosize1695 enthrone1699 aggrandize1702 pantheonize1801 hoist1814 princify1847 queen1880 heroize1887 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xix. sig. L7 They set him almost in the Throne of a Deitie; ascend him to an vnmouednesse. 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