aspire (2 not common before the Eliz. period; 3 is Eliz., now obs.)
1.
to be ambitious Gent. III. i. 154, R2 V. ii. 9.
2.
to rise, mount up
Wiv. V. v. 103
“whose flames
aspire,”
Lucr. 548.
3.
to mount up to
Rom. III. i. 123
“hath a-'d the
clouds.”
