Ascend, to mount, climb, 1) trans.: “a. her chamber-window,” Gentl. III, 1, 39. Rom. III, 3, 147. “my chambers,” Wiv. III, 3, 173. they (curses) “a. the sky,” R3 I, 3, 287. “a. the brightest heaven of invention,” R3 I, 3, 287. “a. the throne,” R2 IV, 111. R2 IV, 111 V, 1, 56. H4B III, 1, 71. “Pantheon,” Tit. I, 333.
2) intr. to rise: “peace a. to heaven,” John II, 86. “it --s me into the brain,” H4B IV, 3, 105. “a., brave Talbot,” H6A II, 1, 28. “the base degrees by which he did a.” Caes. II, 1, 27. “the noble Brutus is --ed,” III, 2, 11. “the dust should have --ed to the roof of heaven,” Ant. III, 6, 49.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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