ascensive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ascensive
First recorded in 1640–50; ascens(ion) + -ive
Example Sentences
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Earning a doctorate, too often a form of intellectual hazing, confers ascensive status, not teaching ability.
From Washington Post
Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.
The flying-machine, which scientific engineers have so long been trying to produce, will probably be quite independent of balloons, and will depend for its ascensive powers on the action of air on oblique surfaces.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald
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.
From Plotting in Pirate Seas by Federer, C. A. (Charles A.)
His main reliance was on the latent heat supposed to be given out during condensation, for his ascensive storm power.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
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