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单词 ascendant
释义 ascendant
 /euh sen"deuhnt/,  n.  
  1. a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
  2. an ancestor; forebear.
  3.  Astrol.   the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac rising above the eastern horizon at the time of a birth or event: the cusp of the first house.
  adj.  
  4. ascending; rising.
  5. superior; predominant.
  6.  Bot.   directed or curved upward.
 Also, ascendent.
 [1350-1400; ME ascendent < L ascendent- (s. of ascendens) climbing up. See ASCEND, -ENT, -ANT]
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