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Definition of ascendant in English: ascendant(also ascendent) adjective əˈsɛnd(ə)ntəˈsɛndənt 1Rising in power or influence. 力量（或影响）正在增长的 the newly ascendant liberal party Example sentencesExamples - During this period the conception of excessive drinking as a moral problem, as a vice demanding punishment, remained ascendant over the notion of alcoholism as a disease requiring treatment.
- Vast fortunes were made and an already wealthy city became the ascendant center of power in the new United States.
- The euro was launched as a symbol of a new ascendant Europe.
- A good book, written by one person for any number of selfish and unselfish reasons, goes against the clockwork agenda so ascendant everywhere in the world.
- This has an interesting counterpoint - the ascendent political correctness of the right.
- Political and power compulsions were ascendant.
- The contradictions between an ascendant democratic movement and a timeworn media oligarchy are extreme.
- The supposed transfer of allegiance from the older, declining imperial power to the ascendant one oversimplifies Curtin's choice.
- It's not that conservatism is on the wane; in fact I would argue that the great difficulty is that conservatism is the ascendant political philosophy in this country.
- This is an exciting time for the written word: it is adapting to the ascendant medium, which happens to be the most immediate, universal, and democratic medium that has ever existed.
- The growth of the exercise phenomenon was inexorably bound up with the ascendant women's movement.
- Less often considered is whether this ascendant legalism is good or bad for global prosperity and stability.
- This was something of a milestone in Hollywood history, signaling the ascendant power of the producer over the director.
- The strategic decision by the United States to try and convince the Shah to share some of his power with the ascendant middle class was the result of a combination of factors.
- The collectivist delusion was flatly incompatible with an international division of labor: When the former was ascendant, the latter could not survive.
- The uneasy ceasefire between an authoritative church and an ascendant political class may be at an end.
- To do so would only risk alienating and provoking conflict with a rising Europe and an ascendant Asia.
- The ascendant ideologies of domestic and foreign security share a nexus in privileging the rights of a state over the collective rights of its citizens.
- This hegemony was sanctioned by an ascendant authority, namely science.
- Fair or not, that is the ascendant view of the moment.
Synonyms rising (in power), in the ascendant, on the up and up, on the way up, up-and-coming, on the rise, growing, increasing, flourishing, prospering, burgeoning, developing, budding 2Astrology
(of a planet, zodiacal degree, or sign) on or close to the intersection of the ecliptic with the eastern horizon. 〔占星〕星位的，运星的 Example sentencesExamples - It could be said that the Midheaven sign represents our life goal; the ascendant sign represents our way of achieving that goal, or our unconscious strategy for attaining it.
- The Astrofaces research project seeks to verify astrology for modern science with photographs grouped by the sun, moon and ascendant signs of the subjects.
- I make sure to read both my sun sign and my ascendant, Cancer and Leo respectively.
- Does anyone know a website where you can find out what your ascendent sign is?
- Obviously, if the ascendant sign could be either of two signs, this greatly affects the evaluation.
noun əˈsɛnd(ə)ntəˈsɛndənt Astrology The point on the ecliptic at which it intersects the eastern horizon at a particular time, typically that of a person's birth. 〔占星〕（多指人诞生时的）星位 Example sentencesExamples - A neutral Saturn would probably err on the side of maturity through the Capricorn ascendant.
- If not, then use the ascendant if the birth was preceded by a New Moon.
- He was certainly unaware of Pluto transiting the 1066 ascendant at the time of Cromwell's birth.
- Your desire to take action comes from that very potent Mars that sits right on your Leo ascendant.
- Saturn is considered a benefic and yogakarak for libra ascendants.
PhrasesRising in power or influence. 力量（或影响）正在增长的 the reformers are in the ascendant 改革者的影响正在增长。 Example sentencesExamples - Its president is consolidating power, its security services are in the ascendant, and its own businessmen are afraid to invest in its future.
- Part of it is also because he is on the party's liberal wing at a time when the right is in the ascendant.
- With Choiseul gone, the devout party was in the ascendant and d' Aiguillon's appointment to the ministry imminent.
- I leave the company in the ascendant, reporting a successful financial year,’ Mihailov said.
- Trafalgar is won; the British navy is in the ascendant.
- When a star dies early, their career still in the ascendant, the tendency is to eulogise them for their unfulfilled potential.
- Consequently, the more romantic vision of community design emanating from the New Urbanists is in the ascendant.
- The novel is a literary-critical battleground (with the feminists probably slightly in the ascendant at the moment).
- By that time electronic telegraph was in the ascendent, and would grow to supplant the European semaphore networks.
- Tories had already suffered losses in the Irish general election of 1713, at a time when the party was still in the ascendant in England.
- With the chancellor in the ascendant, the trade minister will be hoping for a promotion.
- The politics section gets the most heated - sometimes it seems the right is in the ascendent, sometimes the left - but there's also some excellent news you might not get elsewhere.
- Are they now in the ascendant within the republican movement?
- Once again, the Zulu nation is in the ascendant.
- Because historians are human beings, and most human beings are moved deeply by the Israel-Palestine conflict, the romantic school has recently been in the ascendant, at least in popular histories.
- It is especially important to remember this now, when Faith is once more in the ascendant and Reason seems to be losing ground daily.
- My call will not be very long, but I do point out to this House that the number of incidents of female prison officers getting involved with prisoners is in the ascendant.
- At a time when absolutism, both in theory and in practice, seemed to be in the ascendant in the Western world, the importance of this transformation should not be underestimated.
- Attendance at religious services rose; vocations increased; the credibility of the Irish Church and its leaders was in the ascendant as never before.
- Many of these architects are already in the ascendant with a small but growing body of work behind them.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from Latin ascendent- 'climbing up', from the verb ascendere (see ascend). Rhymesappendant, attendant, codependent, defendant, descendant, descendent, intendant, interdependent, pendant, pendent, splendent, superintendent, transcendent Definition of ascendant in US English: ascendant(also ascendent) adjectiveəˈsendəntəˈsɛndənt 1Rising in power or influence. 力量（或影响）正在增长的 ascendant moderate factions in the party 党内温和派势力的增长。 Example sentencesExamples - This has an interesting counterpoint - the ascendent political correctness of the right.
- This was something of a milestone in Hollywood history, signaling the ascendant power of the producer over the director.
- The euro was launched as a symbol of a new ascendant Europe.
- A good book, written by one person for any number of selfish and unselfish reasons, goes against the clockwork agenda so ascendant everywhere in the world.
- Vast fortunes were made and an already wealthy city became the ascendant center of power in the new United States.
- To do so would only risk alienating and provoking conflict with a rising Europe and an ascendant Asia.
- The contradictions between an ascendant democratic movement and a timeworn media oligarchy are extreme.
- The ascendant ideologies of domestic and foreign security share a nexus in privileging the rights of a state over the collective rights of its citizens.
- The growth of the exercise phenomenon was inexorably bound up with the ascendant women's movement.
- It's not that conservatism is on the wane; in fact I would argue that the great difficulty is that conservatism is the ascendant political philosophy in this country.
- Fair or not, that is the ascendant view of the moment.
- The strategic decision by the United States to try and convince the Shah to share some of his power with the ascendant middle class was the result of a combination of factors.
- Less often considered is whether this ascendant legalism is good or bad for global prosperity and stability.
- During this period the conception of excessive drinking as a moral problem, as a vice demanding punishment, remained ascendant over the notion of alcoholism as a disease requiring treatment.
- The supposed transfer of allegiance from the older, declining imperial power to the ascendant one oversimplifies Curtin's choice.
- The uneasy ceasefire between an authoritative church and an ascendant political class may be at an end.
- Political and power compulsions were ascendant.
- The collectivist delusion was flatly incompatible with an international division of labor: When the former was ascendant, the latter could not survive.
- This hegemony was sanctioned by an ascendant authority, namely science.
- This is an exciting time for the written word: it is adapting to the ascendant medium, which happens to be the most immediate, universal, and democratic medium that has ever existed.
Synonyms rising, rising in power, in the ascendant, on the up and up, on the way up, up-and-coming, on the rise, growing, increasing, flourishing, prospering, burgeoning, developing, budding 2Astrology
(of a planet, zodiacal degree, or sign) just above the eastern horizon. 〔占星〕星位的，运星的 Example sentencesExamples - It could be said that the Midheaven sign represents our life goal; the ascendant sign represents our way of achieving that goal, or our unconscious strategy for attaining it.
- I make sure to read both my sun sign and my ascendant, Cancer and Leo respectively.
- Obviously, if the ascendant sign could be either of two signs, this greatly affects the evaluation.
- Does anyone know a website where you can find out what your ascendent sign is?
- The Astrofaces research project seeks to verify astrology for modern science with photographs grouped by the sun, moon and ascendant signs of the subjects.
nounəˈsendəntəˈsɛndənt Astrology The point on the ecliptic at which it intersects the eastern horizon at a particular time, typically that of a person's birth. 〔占星〕（多指人诞生时的）星位 Example sentencesExamples - Your desire to take action comes from that very potent Mars that sits right on your Leo ascendant.
- He was certainly unaware of Pluto transiting the 1066 ascendant at the time of Cromwell's birth.
- If not, then use the ascendant if the birth was preceded by a New Moon.
- A neutral Saturn would probably err on the side of maturity through the Capricorn ascendant.
- Saturn is considered a benefic and yogakarak for libra ascendants.
PhrasesRising in power or influence. 力量（或影响）正在增长的 the reformers are in the ascendant 改革者的影响正在增长。 Example sentencesExamples - The politics section gets the most heated - sometimes it seems the right is in the ascendent, sometimes the left - but there's also some excellent news you might not get elsewhere.
- At a time when absolutism, both in theory and in practice, seemed to be in the ascendant in the Western world, the importance of this transformation should not be underestimated.
- With the chancellor in the ascendant, the trade minister will be hoping for a promotion.
- It is especially important to remember this now, when Faith is once more in the ascendant and Reason seems to be losing ground daily.
- Its president is consolidating power, its security services are in the ascendant, and its own businessmen are afraid to invest in its future.
- By that time electronic telegraph was in the ascendent, and would grow to supplant the European semaphore networks.
- Trafalgar is won; the British navy is in the ascendant.
- With Choiseul gone, the devout party was in the ascendant and d' Aiguillon's appointment to the ministry imminent.
- Part of it is also because he is on the party's liberal wing at a time when the right is in the ascendant.
- When a star dies early, their career still in the ascendant, the tendency is to eulogise them for their unfulfilled potential.
- Because historians are human beings, and most human beings are moved deeply by the Israel-Palestine conflict, the romantic school has recently been in the ascendant, at least in popular histories.
- The novel is a literary-critical battleground (with the feminists probably slightly in the ascendant at the moment).
- Consequently, the more romantic vision of community design emanating from the New Urbanists is in the ascendant.
- My call will not be very long, but I do point out to this House that the number of incidents of female prison officers getting involved with prisoners is in the ascendant.
- Tories had already suffered losses in the Irish general election of 1713, at a time when the party was still in the ascendant in England.
- I leave the company in the ascendant, reporting a successful financial year,’ Mihailov said.
- Attendance at religious services rose; vocations increased; the credibility of the Irish Church and its leaders was in the ascendant as never before.
- Are they now in the ascendant within the republican movement?
- Many of these architects are already in the ascendant with a small but growing body of work behind them.
- Once again, the Zulu nation is in the ascendant.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from Latin ascendent- ‘climbing up’, from the verb ascendere (see ascend). |