Ascendant

Definition:

  • (n.) Ascent; height; elevation.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
  • (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
  • (a.) Alt. of Ascendent

Compare ascendant with other words:

ascendant vs. ascendent

ascendant vs. preeminence

ascendant vs. ascending

ascendant vs. ascendency

ascendant vs. ascent

ascendant vs. horizon

ascendant vs. ecliptic

ascendant vs. degree

ascendant vs. horoscope

ascendant vs. predecessor

ascendance vs. ascendant

ascendancy vs. ascendant

ascend vs. ascendant

ascendant vs. descendant

antecedent vs. ascendant