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Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate. [R.]

other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

An order of annelids; the Polychæta.

Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale.

The vermiform appendix.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

One who apprehends.

In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.

Capable of being ascended.

Same as Ascendency.

Ascent; height; elevation. [R.] Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. Temple.

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts.

Capable of being ascended; climbable.

Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the li…

to give heed to; to regard. [Obs.] The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.

Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.] Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13.

The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant. [Obs.]