ASCENDANT
\ɐsˈɛndənt], \ɐsˈɛndənt], \ɐ_s_ˈɛ_n_d_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of ASCENDANT
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent)
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tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
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most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
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tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
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most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
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someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
By Princeton University
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Ascent; height; elevation.
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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.
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Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
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Alt. of Ascendent
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An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; - opposed to descendant.
By Oddity Software
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Ascent; height; elevation.
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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.
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Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
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Alt. of Ascendent
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An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; - opposed to descendant.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Superior: above the horizon.
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Superiority: (astrol.) the part of the ecliptic rising above the horizon at the time of one's birth: it was supposed to have commanding influence over the person's life, hence the phrase, in the ascendant.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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