The Only Use of
ascend
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- , there wouldn't a been no 'Son of Saint Louis, ascend to heaven!' wrote down in HIS biography; no, sir, we'd a whooped him over the BORDER—that's what we'd a done with HIM—and done it just as slick as nothing at all, too.†
Chpt 40
Definitions:
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(1)
(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder
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(ascend as in: in ascending order) move up a scale -- as from smaller numbers to larger, or lower notes to higher
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(3)
(ascend as in: ascend higher figuratively) figuratively, to rise to a better situation