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The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton.

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

Born together; produced at the same time. Craig.

Feeding. [R.]

Coming into being; nascent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

g, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. Nascent passions and anxieties. Berkley.

A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.

Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced.

Growing underneath. [R.] Evelyn.

Violescent. [R.]

ill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

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

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six…

A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

nce for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.

t 675º. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent above the level of the sea. -- Boiling spring, a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser. -- To be at the boiling point, to be very angry. -- To keep the pot…

Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.