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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., ascendent , astrological use is earliest, from Middle French ascendant (noun and adjective) and directly from Latin ascendentem (nominative ascendans ), present participle of ascendere "to mount, ascend, go up" (see ascend ). Sense "moving upward, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And Mr Desmond's Star is in the ascendant , a full 5.72 per cent ahead. ▪ For ladies in your way are apt to extend what they call their privileges and the husband never again recovers the ascendant . ▪ If there are more than ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The ascendant ( or As ), or rising sign , is the zodiacal sign and degree that was ascending on the eastern horizon at the specific time and location of an event. According to astrological theory, celestial phenomena reflect or determine human activity ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ascendant \As*cend"ant\, Ascendent \As*cend"ent\, a. Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. --Browne. Rising; ascending. --Ruskin. Superior; surpassing; ruling. An ascendant spirit over him. --South. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Rising, moving upward. 2 Surpassing or controlling. n. 1 Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency. 2 An ancestor (antonym of descendant) 3 Ascent; height; elevation. 4 (context astrology English) The horoscope, or that degree ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn: ascendent , ascensive ] most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of ...
Usage examples of ascendant.
Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant.
Her ascendancy over the King was attributed to the enchantments and experiments of a Dominican friar, learned in many a cantrip and cabala, whom she entertained in her house, and who had fashioned two pictures of Edward and Alive which, when suffumigated with the incense of mysterious herbs and gums, mandrakes, sweet calamus, caryophylleae, storax, benzoin, and other plants plucked beneath the full moon what time Venus was in ascendant, caused the old King to dote upon this lovely concubine.
We would have our associations severedwith you, with Cotillion, and with every other Ascendant.
Ascendant or demarch is greatly gifted or has some uncommon ability, he must marry and produce an heir before going into battle, to pass it down.
There are needs permitted to a youthful Ascendant or a warrior in the field that a demarch, especially married, is expected to have mastered, for all his body might tell him that was only yesterday.
In full: Fourth Chevenga Shae-Arano-e, at that time Ascendant to the Demarchy of Yeola-e.
If Krane was coming tohim for disposition, then he must be in the ascendant in this creation.
But he yielded, however reluctantly, to the ascendant which his wiser colleague had acquired over him, and retired, immediately after his abdication, to a villa in Lucania, where it was almost impossible that such an impatient spirit could find any lasting tranquility.
I like the mischievous position of Mars in Taurus, the ascendant of Ireland, particularly as he is upon the mid-heaven, and so near the mundane quartile of Saturn and Mars.
But Bessie was a loyal lass, and even wore the red rose on her boddice notwithstanding the white rose was now in the ascendant.
Cairo, his genius obtained the ascendant over his equals, and attached the army to his person and interest.
Crown Prince and of Prince Ascendant Hyrcan, the snubs of her half-sisters.
Oblomov is representative of serfdom in its classic, precapitalistic stage and can only be fully understood in sharp contrast with Stolz, whose mercantilism is ascendant on the eve of the emancipation.
When his first transports had subsided, she still maintained the same ascendant over his mind, by the more solid merit of temper and understanding.
It is said they partedargumentativelyin the days before the ascendants gathered to chain the Fallen One.