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
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