单词 | in the ascendant |
释义 | > as lemmasin the ascendant c. in the ascendant: supreme, dominant. (Sometimes also: Rising, ascending.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > [adjective] > of controlling or predominating influence regitive?a1425 reigninga1500 reignative1532 overruling1586 predominating1595 hegemonicala1602 regnant1604 dominating1611 ruling1652 presiding1653 hegemonic1656 over-ruly1657 regulant1677 in the ascendanta1698 overriding1830 octopean1896 hegemoniac1959 a1698 W. Temple in Wks. III. 451 Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. v. 47 The hopes of the Conservative party were again in the ascendant. 1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. iv. 111 When..demure conventionalism and sentimentalism are in the ascendant. < as lemmas |
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