ASCENDENT • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Ascendent

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

ascendent n.

Position or state of being dominant or in control. "That idea was in the ascendant".

Synonyms: ascendant.

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent).

Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, antecedent.

See images of 'Ascendent'

Etymology of 'Ascendent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"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