[f. ASCEND v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb ASCEND; ascent, ascension. Attrib. in Ascending Latitude: the latitude of a planet when ascending or going northward. Ascending Node: the point in a planet’s orbit where it crosses the ecliptic in ascending.
1482. Monk of Evesham (1869), 108. Ther was no taryng yn her ascendyng.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. viii. § 5. The highest ascending of our contemplation.
1846. Keble, Lyra Innoc. (1873), 20. Touch Me not till Mine ascending.
