ascendre (1267)
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ascendre (1267)

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[ FEW: 25,414b ascendere; Gdf: 1,417a ascendre; GdfC: 8,197b ascendant; TL: 1,559 ascendant /1,559 ascendu; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  ascendre; TLF:  ascender / ascendre; OED:  ascend v.; MED:  ascenden v.; DMLBS: 135c ascendere ]
acendre,  assendre  

v.a.

1to climb: 
( s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xivm )  ascenderont (=pret.6) les murs  18.18

v.n.

1fig.to mount, make one’s way up: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Celi k’ore est vil e petit […] A richesces e a honurs ascent  1053
♦to rise, ascend: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  La vendra, sicum est escrit, Endreit cel liu u ascendit Utre le Munt d’Olivete dreit, U, veanz mut, au ciel munteit Le jur ke l’en nume d’Ascenciun  12996
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xivin )  Sur les estailes ascenderai  93
( c.1325; MS: c.1325 )  Jhesu Cryst ascendist a cels  59.1
en ascendant
1temporallawbackwards (in time), ascending: 
( 1294 )  ou autrement voche en assendant e nent en dessendant  21-22 Ed I 575
ascent#1 
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