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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.





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"Ascendent" Quotes from Famous Books



... us there was a doctor of phisike; In al the world, was thar non hym lyk To speke of physik and of surgerye, For he wos groundit in astronomie. He kept his pacient a ful gret del In hourys by his magyk naturel; Wel couth he fortunen the ascendent Of his ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten
... Savonarola, became Gonfaloniere in the time of Piero de' Medici's exile, [Footnote: Gino Capponi, Storia delta Republica di Firenze, lib. vi. chap. xi. p. 233.] and the friar's party was in the ascendent. Rosini [Footnote: Storia delta Pittura, chap. xvii. p. 48.] says that belonging to a faction was a means of fame, and that the Savonarola party was powerful, giving this as a reason for Baccio's partisanship; ...
— Fra Bartolommeo • Leader Scott (Re-Edited By Horace Shipp And Flora Kendrick)


Words linked to "Ascendent" :   control, primogenitor, ascendant, ascendancy, ascensive, ascendency, dominant, ascending, ascendance, antecedent, dominance, ancestress, dominating, relation, sire, father, forebear, ascend, root, ancestor, forefather


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