Crossword clues for ascendent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ascendent \ascendent\ adj.
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tending or directed upward.
Syn: ascendant, ascensive.
rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage.
--John Ruskin -
having the most important influence.
Syn: ascendant, dominating, prestigious.
ascendent \ascendent\ n.
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position or state of being dominant or in control. that idea was in the ascendant.
Syn: ascendant.
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someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent).
Syn: ancestor, ascendant, antecedent.
Wiktionary
a. 1 upward in direction or proclivity. 2 In power; controlling. n. 1 A person from whom one is descended. 2 A position of power or control.
WordNet
adj. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn: ascendant, ascensive]
most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" [syn: ascendant, dominating]
n. position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant" [syn: ascendant]
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant]
Usage examples of "ascendent".
Western psyche that was never allowed to be scratched and then forgottenthe ascendent carrot on a very long stick held above and in front of the collective donkey that assured that the poor beast would always lurch forward and never be allowed to eat.
I would never see my Ascendent become demarch or even warrior, unless I married within the year.
Precisely because the Ascension could not be consummated, the West was locked into a perpetually frustrated Ascendent yearninga yearning for a Goal that would never be officially allowed, and therefore a perpetual yearning that could never be satisfied and let go ofthe perpetual itch in the Western psyche that was never allowed to be scratched and then forgottenthe Ascendent carrot on a very long stick held above and in front of the collective donkey that assured that the poor beast would always lurch forward and never be allowed to eat.
But with the rejection by modernity of the Ascendent God in virtually any form, there was only the Descended God left, the God of a marvelous and creative nature, a nature that was everywhere not to be denied, but a nature in which alone could salvation now be found.
And clerkes* eke, which knowe well *scholars All this magic naturel, That craftily do their intents, To make, in certain ascendents, Images, lo!