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noun
ascendent  n.  
1.
Position or state of being dominant or in control. "That idea was in the ascendant".
Synonyms: ascendant.
2.
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent).
Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, antecedent.


adjective
Ascendent, Ascendant  adj.  
1.
Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. "The constellation... about that time ascendant."
2.
Rising; ascending.
3.
Superior; surpassing; ruling. "An ascendant spirit over him." "The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth." "Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations,... no man could possibly hold an ascendent position."


ascendent  adj.  
1.
Tending or directed upward.
Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive. "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage."
2.
Having the most important influence.
Synonyms: ascendant, dominating, prestigious.





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"Ascendent" Quotes from Famous Books



... Solari. Like everything touched by the Leonardesque spirit, this great picture was left unfinished; yet Northern Italy has nothing finer to show than the landscape, outspread in its immeasurable purity of calm, behind the grouped Apostles and the ascendent Mother of Heaven. The feeling of that happy region between the Alps and Lombardy, where there are many waters—et tacitos sine labe lacus sine murmure rivos—and where the last spurs of the mountains ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds
... after the event to point out better methods than those devised at the imperious call of the moment by the Russell Administration, but there are few fair-minded people in the present day who would venture to assert that justice and mercy were not in the ascendent during a crisis which taxed to the utmost the ...
— Lord John Russell • Stuart J. Reid
... the usurped districts should be confirmed to him, and hereditarily to his family. But, like the ten thousand military chieftains, soldiers of fortune, who have gone before him, whose faith saw their star always in the ascendant, he sighed for Tripoli, and its Bashaw's ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... the bridge with the officer of the watch for several hours, come aft with weary shoulders sagging, and go below by the saloon companionway. And Lanyard smiled knowingly and assured himself that went well—ca va bien!—his star held still in the ascendant. ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... have the power to reproduce their species, and some of them to kill off surrounding objects. "The carraguata of the West Indies, clings round," says Goldsmith, "whatever tree it happens to approach; there it quickly gains the ascendant, and, loading the tree with a verdure not its own, keeps away that nourishment designed to feed the trunk, and at last entirely destroys its supporter." In our country, many gardens and fields present convincing proof of the ability of weeds to kill out the vegetables designed to ...
— Lectures on Language - As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. • William S. Balch


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