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Definition of Ascendant

Ascendant Ascent; height; elevation. The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune. Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another. An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. Alt. of Ascendent Related Definitions: Above, Alt, An, Ancestor, And, Another, As, Ascendant, Ascendency, Ascendent, Ascending, Ascent, At, Birth, Commanding, Degree, Descendant, Ecliptic, Elevation, Fortune, Genealogy, Have, Height, Horizon, Horoscope, Has, In, Influence, Kindred, Life, Line, Man, Moment, Of, On, One, Opposed, Or, Over, Person, Progenitor, Relative, Superiority, Supposed, That, The, To, Which, Who

Ascendant Quotations We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe. Joe Lieberman The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. John Stuart Mill If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment. William Lilly The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. John Aubrey

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