Ascendant definition

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Inclining or moving upward; ascending or rising.
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Dominant in position or influence; superior.
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The position or state of being dominant or in control.

A conservative policy currently in the ascendant.

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An ancestor.
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Rising; ascending.
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In control; dominant; superior.
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Designating or of the ascendant; rising.
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A dominating position; ascendancy.
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An ancestor.
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(astrol.) The sign of the zodiac just above the eastern horizon at any given moment, specif. at the time of one's birth.
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Rising, moving upward.
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Surpassing or controlling.
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Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.

One man has the ascendant over another.

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An ancestor (antonym of descendant)

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Ascent; height; elevation.
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(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.

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In astrology, the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac that rises in the east at the time of a person's birth or other event.
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in the ascendant
  • at or heading toward the height of power, influence, fame, etc.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
ascendant
Plural:
ascendants

Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

in the ascendant

Origin of ascendant

  • From Middle French ascendant, from Latin ascendens.

    From Wiktionary

Ascendant Sentence Examples

  • The former was in the ascendant during the early years of the reign.

  • Compelled by illness to leave the fleet, he found on his return to Dort that the Orange party were in the ascendant, and he and his brother were the objects of popular suspicion and hatred.

  • The stars are held, not only to prognosticate the future but also to influence it; the child born when Mars is in the ascendant will be war-like; Venus has to do with love; the sign of the Lion presides over places where wild beasts are found.

  • Although both abroad and at home his policy had generally embodied the wishes of the ascendant party in the state, Danby had never obtained the confidence of the nation.

  • During 1848,, when the extreme party was in the ascendant, Mommsen supported the monarchy against the Republicans.

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