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ove 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 ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again. He mounts aloft, and reascends the skies. Addison.

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

ion ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.

A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.

To go up; to ascend. [Obs.] So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser.

A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.

A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending. Huxley.

se. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.