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▸ adjective:  Moving upward; ascending, rising.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Controlling, dominant, surpassing.
▸ adjective:  (astrology) In an eastern direction rising just above the horizon.
▸ adjective:  (astronomy) Rising towards the zenith.
▸ adjective:  (botany, physiology) Of a part of an organism: synonym of ascending (“leading or sloping upwards”)
▸ adjective:  (genealogy, archaic or obsolete) Synonym of ascending (“of or pertaining to one's ancestors”)
▸ noun:  (astrology, also figurative) The degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person's birth), which is supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's fortune and life; a horoscope.
▸ noun:  (by extension)
▸ noun:  Chiefly in in the ascendant: an act of ascending or rising.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Synonym of ascendancy (“commanding influence; dominant control; superiority, supremacy”)
▸ noun:  (genealogy) An ancestor.
▸ noun:  (obsolete)
▸ noun:  A person who ascends or goes up; specifically (usually followed by to), a person who ascends to a throne or assumes some other position of power.
▸ noun:  Something which is higher than the things around it; a peak, a summit; specifically (typography), synonym of ascender (“the portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline”)
▸ noun:  Something which leads or slopes upwards, such as a flight of stairs or an upward incline.
▸ noun:  (rare) A person who supports a policy of ecclesiastical or national supremacy.

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