ascendant
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dənt noun
1.
a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
2.
an ancestor; forebear.
3.
Astrology. the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac rising above the eastern horizon at the time of a birth or event: the cusp of the first house.
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ascendant or ascendent (əˈsɛndənt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | proceeding upwards; rising |
| 2. | dominant, superior, or influential |
| 3. | botany another term for ascending |
| —n | |
| 4. | rare an ancestor |
| 5. | a position or condition of dominance, superiority or control |
| 6. | (sometimes capital) astrology |
| a. a point on the ecliptic that rises on the eastern horizon at a particular moment and changes as the earth rotates on its axis | |
| b. the sign of the zodiac containing this point | |
| 7. | in the ascendant increasing in influence, prosperity, etc |
| ascendent or ascendent | |
| —adj | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
ascendant
late 14c., astrological use is earliest, from O.Fr. ascendant (n., adj.), from L. ascendentem (nom. ascendans), prp. of ascendere "to mount, ascend, go up" (see ascend). Sense "moving upward, rising" is recorded from 1590s. In the ascendant "ruling, dominant" (not, as is
often thought, "rising") is from 1670s.
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Example sentences
The ascendant real-world notion of the athletic performer as purely a commodity was reinforced, even exalted.
According to the model, civil rights opinions remain ascendant today.
Now the wolves were ascendant, the elk down, and the local populace restive.
Finance feeds on trust and mistrust, and amplifies whichever is ascendant.
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