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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ascensive

Ascensive \As*cen"sive\, a. [See Ascend.]

  1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
    --Owen.

  2. (Gram.) Augmentative; intensive.
    --Ellicott.

Wiktionary
ascensive

a. 1 rise; tending to rise, or causing to rise. 2 (context grammar English) augmentative; intensive.

WordNet
ascensive

adj. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn: ascendant, ascendent]