Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by an ascending movement; tending to ascend; rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. Sir T. Browne.
- In grammar, increasing force; intensive; augmentative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
- adjective (Gram.) Augmentative; intensive.
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- adjective
Rising ; tending to rise, or causing to rise. - adjective grammar
Augmentative ;intensive .
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- adjective tending or directed upward
Etymologies
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Examples
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Love is “desire to enjoy beauty”; and nourished by the spiritual senses of sight and hearing alone, it is temperate, ascensive, morally beneficient.
PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968
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Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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The vapors were of a violet-gray color and seemingly very dense, for, although endowed with an almost inconceivably powerful ascensive force, they retained to the zenith their rounded summits.
Plotting in Pirate Seas Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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The simple trial proved a complete success, due, as it appeared to them, to the ascensive power of a cloud of smoke.
The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation John Mackenzie Bacon 1875
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Naturalists are familiar with insects which walk on water, and imagination has no more difficulty in putting a man in place of the insect than it has in giving a man some of the attributes of a bird and making an angel of him; or in ascribing to him the ascensive tendencies of a balloon, as the "levitationists" do.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Se the cheap travel uk he ascensive to hyperactivity when he was autostrada with rubiales that durable him indescribably his legislator romper.
Rational Review 2009
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Mammalia,” which was printed in the Society’s Journal, and contains the following passage: — “In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding sub-class was distinguished from the one below it.
Essays 2007
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Society's Journal, and contains the following passage: -- "In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding sub-class was distinguished from the one below it.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Society's Journal, and contains the following passage: -- "In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding sub-class was distinguished from the one below it.
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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"In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding sub-class was distinguished from the one below it.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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