Descend vs. Ascend
Descendverb
(intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
Descendverb
To enter mentally; to retire.
Descendverb
or upon}} To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
Descendverb
(intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself
Descendverb
(intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
Descendverb
(intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
Descendverb
To move toward the south, or to the southward.
Descendverb
To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Descendverb
(transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
Descendverb
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; - the opposite of ascend.
Descendverb
To enter mentally; to retire.
Descendverb
To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; - with on or upon.
Descendverb
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
Descendverb
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
Descendverb
To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
Descendverb
To move toward the south, or to the southward.
Descendverb
To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Descendverb
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
Descendverb
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way;
Descendverb
come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example;
Descendverb
do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Descendverb
come as if by falling;
Ascendverb
(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
Ascendverb
(intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
Ascendverb
(transitive) To go up.
Ascendverb
(transitive) To succeed.
Ascendverb
(figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
Ascendverb
To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; - opposed to descend.
Ascendverb
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.
Ascendverb
To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.
Ascendverb
travel up,
Ascendverb
go back in order of genealogical succession;
Ascendverb
become king or queen;
Ascendverb
go along towards (a river's) source;
Ascendverb
slope upwards;
Ascendverb
come up, of celestial bodies;
