Ascendant

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Ascent; height; elevation.

II. Ascendant ·adj ·Alt. of Ascendent.

III. Ascendant ·noun Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.

IV. 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.

V. 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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