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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French ascendant, from Latin ascendens.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ascendant (comparative more ascendant, superlative most ascendant)
- Rising, moving upward.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
- The constellation […] about that time ascendant.
- Surpassing or controlling.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
- An ascendant spirit above him.
- 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
- The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.
Translations[edit]
Rising, moving upward
Surpassing or controlling
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Noun[edit]
ascendant (plural ascendants)
- Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
- One man has the ascendant over another.
- 1672, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Original and Nature of Government. […]”, in Miscellanea. The First Part. [...], 3rd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1691, OCLC 1113628240, pages 91–92:
- [T]he Dominion of ſucceeding Favourites [...] occaſioned perpetual commotions in that State, and changes of the Miniſtry; and would certainly have produced thoſe in the Government too; if [Cardinal] Richelieu having gained the abſolute aſcendant in that Court, had not engaged in the deſigns at firſt of a War upon the Hugonots, and after that was ended, upon Spain; [...]
- 1769, William Robertson, History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V:
- Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
- An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani
- Ascendants and Descendants , are , by the Civil Law , stiled by the Title of Nefarious as well as Incestuous , to shew the Abhorrence that Law has of such kind of Marriages.
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani
- (usu. followed by to) A royal heir assuming (a place of power)
- Given his father’s ghastly demise, one would not expect such glee from the ascendant to his throne.
- Ascent; height; elevation.
- (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.
- May 26 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Hercules Langrish
- taught by the jealous ascendants, sometimes by doctrine, sometimes by example, always by provocation.
- May 26 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Hercules Langrish
Translations[edit]
being in control
An ancestor
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin ascendens, ascendentem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
ascendant
Adjective[edit]
ascendant (feminine ascendante, masculine plural ascendants, feminine plural ascendantes)
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
ascendant m (plural ascendants)
- (astrology) ascendant
- supremacy, ascendancy
- L'équipe adverse a repris l'ascendant du match. ― The opposing team regained the supremacy of the match.
- (genealogy) ancestor, forefather, progenitor
Further reading[edit]
- “ascendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
ascendant
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