ascend

verb

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.

1. To move upward, to fly, to soar.

   “He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.”

2. To slope in an upward direction.
3. To go up.

   “You ascend the stairs and take a right.”

   “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.”

4. To succeed a ruler on (the throne).

   “She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.”

   “She ascended to the throne when her mother abdicated.”

5. To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).

   “Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.”

7. To become higher in pitch.
8. To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.

   “Instead of using sexual conquest as an opportunity to “ascend,” these members advocated for pursuing internal self-improvement.”

   “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.”