Meaning

noun position or state of being dominant or in control

noun someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

adjective tending or directed upward; - John Ruskin

originPIE word *h₂éd The adjective is derived from Late Middle English ascendent (“ascending, rising; increasing in quantity; (astronomy) rising above the horizon”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French ascendant, from Latin ascendentem, the accusative singular of ascendēns (“ascending, rising”), the present participle of ascendō, adscendō (“to climb up, go up, move upwards; to rise; to spring…

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