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noun

ascendent n.

1.

Position or state of being dominant or in control. "That idea was in the ascendant".

Synonyms: ascendant.

2.

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent).

Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, antecedent.

adjective

Ascendent, Ascendant adj.

1.

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. "The constellation... about that time ascendant."

2.

Rising; ascending.

3.

Superior; surpassing; ruling. "An ascendant spirit over him." "The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth." "Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations,... no man could possibly hold an ascendent position."

ascendent adj.

1.

Tending or directed upward.

Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive. "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage."

2.

Having the most important influence.

Synonyms: ascendant, dominating, prestigious.

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Etymology of 'Ascendent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ascendent" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Carnegie Institution indeed fell flat, and Cosmo Versal's star reigned in the ascendent. He pushed his preparations with amazing speed, and not only politics, but even the war that had just broken out in South America was swallowed up in the newspapers by endless descriptions of the mysterious proceedings at Mineola. Cosmo ...

— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... few days after he passed out of my knowledge that news came of the death of Gen. Lowrie. It was the old story, "the great man down," for he died in poverty and neglect, but with his better self in the ascendent. His body lies in an unmarked grave, in that land where once his ...

— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

... as slumbers, or as beds of ease After our long and peevish sicknesses. O pomp of glory! Welcome now, and come To repossess once more your long'd-for home. A thousand altars smoke: a thousand thighs Of beeves here ready stand for sacrifice. Enter and prosper; while our eyes do wait For an ascendent throughly auspicate: Under which sign we may the former stone Lay of our safety's new foundation: That done, O Caesar! live and be to us Our fate, our fortune, and our genius; To whose free knees we may our temples tie As to a still protecting deity: That should you stir, we and our ...

— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick

... king!' which the negroes are fond of using, is said to be a genuine relic of the time when it was the watchword of the outnumbered but courageous Cavaliers. Even after the Restoration, the Puritans were for a while in the ascendant in the island which the Puritan protector had wrested from the great foe of Protestantism; but gradually all traces of that hardy sect disappeared from a land which an enervating climate and the rapidly advancing barbarism of slavery rendered far ...

— Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 • Various

... The lieges of the realm congratulated one another thereanent and the King commanded an assembly of his Olema and philosophers, astrologers and horoscopists, whom he thus addressed, "I desire you to forecast the fortune of my son and to determine his ascendant[FN154] and whatever is shown by his nativity." They replied "'Tis well, in Allah's name, let us do so!" and cast his nativity with all diligence. After ascertaining his ascendant, they pronounced judgement in these words, "We see his lot favourable and his life viable and durable; ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

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