Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Tending or directed upward.
Most powerful or important or influential.
1 The chief of the ascendent political party was the real ruler.
2 Outside of his official duties his passion for work again gained the ascendent .
3 But at this Abe's prudence deserted him, and righteous wrath rose to the ascendent .
4 But the people were for the moment in the ascendent , and Bacon should not be sacrificed.
5 Hence his oft varying moods, as the one or the other part of him became ascendent .
6 The utterance of the Carnegie Institution indeed fell flat, and Cosmo Versál's star reigned in the ascendent .
7 Under Cyrus they became the ascendent power in Asia, and maintained their ascendency until their conquest by Alexander.
8 The family spent several hundred pages declining in Lübeck, but Helmut Schmidt spent 96 years in the ascendent .
9 Do so with the spinners and Australia might well be in the ascendent -he is that influential.
10 The curate continues a very solid innings in the country; but in town the political lover is in the ascendent .
11 At one time his star was in the ascendent , and he seemed to be on the highroad to the Presidency.
12 This principle worked well so long as the faith was in the ascendent but its effect was disastrous when decline began.
13 No wonder the Democratic party spilt wide open-transformed from an ascendent sun into a bifurcated Biela's comet, wandering the Lord knows whither.
14 It was one of those "decisive battles" that made Prussia the ascendent power in Germany, and destroyed the prestige of Austria.
15 He loved office dearly, and hence he did not yield gracefully to the triumph of the ascendent party, which grew stronger every day.
16 From then on, she was steadily in the ascendent , not only in John Galbraith's good graces, which was all of course that mattered.
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