ascensive

How to use ascensive in a sentence

• The simple trial proved a complete success, due, as it appeared to them, to the ascensive power of a cloud of smoke.

  The Dominion of the Air | J. M. Bacon

• Does it heat so fast as to keep up the ascensive force without intermission, at twenty-five, or twenty, or ten miles the hour?

  The Philosophy of the Weather | Thomas Belden Butler

• His main reliance was on the latent heat supposed to be given out during condensation, for his ascensive storm power.

  The Philosophy of the Weather | Thomas Belden Butler

• What is the ascensive power of an area of atmosphere of 100°?

  The Philosophy of the Weather | Thomas Belden Butler