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Ascending
- verb - appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house"
- become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
- come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
- go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
- go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
- move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
- moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"
- slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- to climb
- travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
Ascension
- noun - (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon
- (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
- (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
- a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
Ascensive
- adjective - tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
Ascertain
- verb -
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
- learn or discover with certainty
Ascessant
- - See Acescency, Acescent.
Ascetical
- adjective - pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"
- practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
Ascidians
- noun - minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves
Ascitical
- - Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.
Asclepiad
- noun - any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae
Asclepias
- noun - genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed