Ascend

as-send′, v.i. to climb or mount up: to rise, literally or figuratively: to go backwards in the order of time.— v.t. to climb or go up on: to mount.— adjs. Ascend′able , Ascend′ible .— Ascending rhythm , in prosody, a rhythm in which the arsis follows the thesis, as an iambic or anapæstic rhythm: opposed to descending rhythms, as the trochaic and dactylic. [L. ascendĕre , ascensum — ad , and scandĕre , to climb.]