Ascended

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb,
     mount. See {Scan}.]
     1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to
        {descend}.
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              Higher yet that star ascends.         --Bowring.
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              I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
                                                    17.
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     Note: Formerly used with up.
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                 The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.
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     2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an
        inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects,
        from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient
        times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our
        inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to
        our first progenitor.
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     Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
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