ascendant

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Adjective

ascendant

1. Rising, moving upward.

   • The constellation […] about that time ascendant.

2. Surpassing or controlling.

   • An ascendant spirit over him.

   • The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.

Translations

• Portuguese: ascendente

Noun

ascendant (plural ascendants)

1. Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.

   One man has the ascendant over another.

   • Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.

2. An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
3. (usu. followed by to) A royal heir assuming (a place of power)

   Given his father's ghastly demise, one would not expect such glee from the ascendant to his throne.

4. Ascent; height; elevation.

   • Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant.

5. (astrology) 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.

Translations

• German: Vorfahr
• Portuguese: ascendente

Related terms

• ascend
• ascent
• ascendance
• ascendancy/ascendency
• ascending
• ascender

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