ascend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: ascends
form: ascending
form: ascended
form: ascended
Etymology: From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendō (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.
Senses: examples: text: He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
glosses: To move upward, to fly, to soar.
glosses: To slope in an upward direction.
examples: text: You ascend the stairs and take a right.
text: When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 620, from Herapath's Journal:
glosses: To go up.
examples: text: She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
text: She ascended to the throne when her mother abdicated.
glosses: To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
glosses: To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
examples: text: Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
glosses: To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To become higher in pitch.
examples: text: Instead of using sexual conquest as an opportunity to “ascend,” these members advocated for pursuing internal self-improvement.
ref: 2022, Alyssa Jewel Davis, "Climbing the masculine hierarchy: Examining constructions of masculinity through incel identities", thesis submitted to Clemson University, page 35
text: As such, race and class are not only factors in attractiveness (i.e. “Just Be White” and “job/career maxxing” are often used in the forums), but is also a factor when incels discuss ways for them to “ascend” and leave their incel status.
ref: 2023, Julia R. DeCook, Megan Kelly, “Interrogating the 'incel menace': assessing the threat of male supremacy in terrorism studies”, in Ann-Kathrin Rothermel, Laura J. Shepherd, editors, Gender and the Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism, unnumbered page:
text: Many femcels take extreme measures to 'ascend from femceldom', and Laura describes how she is in the process of improving her looks and personality.
ref: 2023, Maria Brix Rasmussen, "The Lack of Love: The Sacred and the Suffering Experiences of Female Involuntary Celibates", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 57
qualifier: incel slang; intramurally derogatory; incel slang; intramurally derogatory
glosses: To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.
Derived terms: unascended
ascendable
en
reascend
Related terms: ascendance
ascendancy
ascendency
ascendant
ascender
ascending
ascension
ascent
transcend
climb