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.