ASCENDANT


Meaning of ASCENDANT in English

noun ascent; height; elevation.

2. ascendant ·adj ·alt. of ascendent.

3. ascendant ·noun superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.

4. ascendant ·noun an ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor;

— opposed to descendant.

5. ascendant ·noun 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.

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