Ascendant
Origin
From Middle French ascendant, from Latin ascendens.
Full definition of ascendant
Adjective
ascendant
- Rising, moving upward.
- BrowneThe constellation ... about that time ascendant.
- Surpassing or controlling.
- SouthAn ascendant spirit over him.
- John Stuart MillThe ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.
Noun
ascendant
(plural ascendants)- Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.One man has the ascendant over another.
- RobertsonChievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
- An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
- Ascent; height; elevation.
- TempleSciences that were then in their highest ascendant.
- (astrology) 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.