ASCEND Copy link • ASCENDascendere: sublime ferri: sublimem abire (of mounting on high, into the clouds, etc.: the latter only of living things). To ascend gradually, gradatim aacendere. (Transitive) To ascend a wall, murum ascendere: a tree, in arborem inscendere: the rostra, in rostra (in concionem) escendere; ascendere in rostra: to ascend the pulpit, in sacrum suggestum ascendere: the throne, in regiam sedem escendere (PROP.); regnum adipisci: legnum occupare (ofobtaining royal power; the latter especially unlawfully). Figuratively, to ascend to honors, etc., ascendere ad honores, ad altiorem gradum; also without ad: promoveri ad or in ampliorem gradum. The ascending lines (in genealogical tables), gradus ascendentium (Paul., Dig.).