ascendant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Moving upward; ascending, rising.

   “[…] Chriſt, that he might not make either a ſuſpected or precarious Addreſs to Men's Underſtandings, out-does Moſes, before he diſplaces him; ſhevvs an aſcendant Spirit above him, raiſes the Dead, and cures more Plagues than he brought upon Egypt, […]”

2. sıfat Controlling, dominant, surpassing.

   “Without some power of persuading or confuting—of defending himself against accusation, or in case of need, accusing others—no man could possibly hold an ascendent position.”

3. sıfat In an eastern direction rising just above the horizon.

   “This Phœbus promis'd, I forget the Year, / VVhen thoſe blue eyes firſt open'd on the Sphere; / Aſcendant Phœbus vvatch'd that hour vvith care, / Averted half your Parents ſimple Pray'r, / And gave you Beauty, but deny'd the Pelf / That buys your Sex a Tyrant o'er itſelf: […]”

4. sıfat Rising towards the zenith.

   “[W]e muſt diſcover freezing ſtars that may reſolve the latter colds of vvinter, vvhich vvho ever deſires to invent, let him ſtudie the ſtarres of Andromeda, or the nearer conſtellation of Pegaſus, vvhich are about that time aſcendant.”

5. sıfat Of a part of an organism: synonym of ascending (“leading or sloping upwards”).

   “Artere ſouſclaviere. The aſcendant branch of the great Arterie.”

6. sıfat Synonym of ascending (“of or pertaining to one's ancestors”).
7. isim The degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person's birth), which is supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's fortune and life; a horoscope.

   “[T]hey ſay that Jeſus in his natiuitie, had for his aſcendent, the ſigne of Virgo in her firſt face, as they terme it, […]”

8. isim Chiefly in in the ascendant: an act of ascending or rising.

   “Towards the end of the session of 1836, the hopes of the Conservative party were again in the ascendant.”

9. isim Synonym of ascendancy (“commanding influence; dominant control; superiority, supremacy”).

   “One man has the ascendant over another.”

10. isim An ancestor.

    “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.”

11. isim A person who ascends or goes up; specifically (usually followed by to), a person who ascends to a throne or assumes some other position of power.

    “Given his father’s ghastly demise, one would not expect such glee from the ascendant to his throne.”

12. isim Something which is higher than the things around it; a peak, a summit; specifically (typography), synonym of ascender (“the portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline”).
13. isim Something which leads or slopes upwards, such as a flight of stairs or an upward incline.

    “[T]here can be no reaſon yeilded neither in nature, nor in relation, vvherefore, if it have lavvfully mounted thus high, it ſhould not be a Lordly aſcendent in the horoſcope of the Church, from Primate to Patriarch, and ſo to Pope.”

14. isim A person who supports a policy of ecclesiastical or national supremacy.

    “Indeed, my dear Sir, there is not a single particular in the Francis-street declamations, which has not, to your and to my certain knowledge, been taught by the jealous ascendants, sometimes by doctrine, sometimes by example, always by provocation.”