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
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
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.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The simple trial proved a complete success, due, as it appeared to them, to the ascensive power of a cloud of smoke.
From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by Bacon, John Mackenzie
Is that the ascensive force of air at 100°?
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
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