ascensive

American  

[uh-sen-siv] / əˈsɛn sɪv /

adjective

1. ascending; rising.

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Etymology

Origin of ascensive

First recorded in 1640–50; ascens(ion) + -ive

Example Sentences

Earning a doctorate, too often a form of intellectual hazing, confers ascensive status, not teaching ability.

From Washington Post

Does it heat so fast as to keep up the ascensive force without intermission, at twenty-five, or twenty, or ten miles the hour?

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

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

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

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.