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

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Example Sentences

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ascensive

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 Thomas Belden Butler

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 C. A. (Charles A.) Federer

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 Sir Charles Lyell

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 John Mackenzie Bacon

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