Thesaurus: ascendant

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1. n. Ascent; height; elevation.
2. 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.
3. n. Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
4. n. An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
5. a. Alt. of Ascendent
6. adj. tending or directed upward
7. adj. most powerful or important or influential
8. n. position or state of being dominant or in control
9. n. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
10. The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises abovethe horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have acommanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
11. n:100 n. position or state of being dominant or in control s. tending or directed upward s. most powerful or important or influential