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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:
- The constellation […] about that time ascendant.
- Surpassing or controlling.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
- An ascendant spirit above him.
- 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book I (Production), page 19:
- […] while the ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth, available for purposes of collective luxury or magnificence.
- 2015 August 1, Martin Chulov, “Ascendant Kurds emerge from Syrian civil war as major power player”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Now, with Syria’s Kurds ascendant, hopes that the country as it is now may again be controlled from Damascus are also falling.
Translations[edit]
Rising, moving upward
Surpassing or controlling
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Noun[edit]
ascendant (plural ascendants)
- Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendancy.
- 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, 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, The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. and W. Strahan, for W[illiam] Strahan, T[homas] Cadell, […]; and J. Balfour, […], →OCLC:
- Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
- An ancestor.
- Antonym: descendant
- 1726, John Ayliffe, “Of Administration, and the Possession of Intestate Goods”, in Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC, page 34:
- The Eſtate and Inheritance of a Perſon dying Inteſtate is, by Right of Devolution, according to the Civil-Lavv, given to ſuch as are ally'd to him ex Latere, commonly ſtiled Collaterals, if there be no Aſcendants or Deſcendants ſurviving at the time of his Death.
- (usually 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
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
being in control
An ancestor
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin 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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