Ascendant
[ə'send(ə)nt]
Definition
(noun.) position or state of being dominant or in control; 'that idea was in the ascendant'.
(adj.) most powerful or important or influential; 'the economically ascendant class'; 'D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe' .
(adj.) tending or directed upward; 'rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage'- John Ruskin .
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Definition
(n.) Ascent; height; elevation.
(n.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
(n.) Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
(n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
(a.) Alt. of Ascendent
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Horoscope.[2]. Superiority, predominance, ascendency, superior influence, controlling influence.
a. [1]. Rising, above the horizon.[2]. Superior, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, surpassing.
Typist: Portia
Examples
- Across it Egypt, and whatever power was ascendant in the north, fought for empire; against its people they fought for a trade route. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oh, star ascendant at my birth! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Both in England and on the Continent the ascendant rulers seized upon Christianity as a unifying force to cement their conquests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For a time, after the death of Ali, the Omayyad family was in the ascendant, and for nearly a century they gave rulers to Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The caste system Yuan Chwang found fully established in spite of Buddha, and the Brahmins were now altogether in the ascendant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By sea or land men want no Powers ascendant, but only law and service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He who is watching the ascendant ideas of American life can afford to feel that the early maxims of capitalism are doomed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Do you think my fortunate star is in the ascendant? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- For a time Egypt was the ascendant power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The luctuosa hereditas, the mournful succession of ascendants to descendants, to the twentieth penny only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Direct successions, or those of descendants to ascendants, pay no tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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