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Ascent; height; elevation. [R.] Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. Temple.

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne.

door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant. Our first parents and their descendants. Hale. The descendant of so many kings and emperors. Burke.

d in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty- four hours.

Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic. [Obs.] "A vast and imperious mind." Tilloison. Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness, Imperious. Shak.

tant subjects. Addison . It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant. Bp. Hurd.

with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries. The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations. Sir T. Browne.