Obs. [a. OF. ascense:—late L. ascensa, sb. formed on fem. sing. of ascensus, pa. pple. of ascendĕre to ASCEND; analogous to sbs. in -āta, -ada, F. -ée. Cf. defence.] Earlier equivalent of ASCENT, ASCENSION.
c. 1450. Henryson, Mor. Fables, 86. Then may the storme on no way make ascence.
1481. Earl Worc., Tulle on Friendship (Caxton), A iv/3. To whom shold we deme that a liter ascence was graunted … than unto Scipio?
1578. Psalm li. in Scot. Poems 16th C. (1801), II. 114. This isope is humilitie Right law intill ascence.
