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ascendent

/uh-sen-duhnt/US // əˈsɛn dənt //UK // (əˈsɛndənt) //

升华,升腾,升天,升腾的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
    • : an ancestor; forebear.
    • : Astrology. the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac rising above the eastern horizon at the time of a birth or event: the cusp of the first house.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : ascending; rising.
    • : superior; predominant.
    • : Botany. directed or curved upward.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Scalia's own transformation shows how the conservative legal movement has changed since becoming largely ascendent.

  • Horoscopo; in horoscopo, within that part of the sky considered as the ascendent, A. ii.

  • But as we moved on down the shore, presently there came the night sounds from the country, frogs' voices in the ascendent.

  • The theological element was distinctly ascendent and I, though a daughter of Levi, did not like it.

  • The ascendent is that point of the zodiacal circle which is seen to be just ascending above the horizon at a given moment.

  • To know the right time, it was necessary to observe the ascendent (see note to l. 1268).