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Definition of Ascensive
1. Adjective. Tending or directed upward. "Rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"
Similar to: Ascending
Derivative terms: Ascend, Ascend, Ascend, Ascend, Ascend, Ascend
Definition of Ascensive
1. a. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
Definition of Ascensive
1. Adjective. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. ¹
2. Adjective. (grammar) Augmentative; intensive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ascensive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascensive
Literary usage of Ascensive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Sophisms: A Review of Current Theories Concerning Atoms, Apes by Samuel Wainwright (1883)
"In this theory of ascensive Development " the steps " are every thing. But where
are they ? Their discovery is hopeless, their demonstration is impossible ..."
2. Hawaii and Its Volcanoes by Charles Henry Hitchcock (1911)
"(For convenience the figures showing the variations in the altitude of the
ascensive column are calculated as below this datum, with the minus sign. ..."
3. Harry and Lucy Concluded: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons by Maria Edgeworth (1825)
"... the ascensive power; and you see, Harry," continued Sir Rupert, " how necessary
it was for this great inventor to know how to calculate with exactness, ..."
4. Harry and Lucy Concluded: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons by Maria Edgeworth (1827)
"... The difference between these weights is called the ascensive power; and you
see, Harry," continued Sir Rupert, " how necessary it was for ..."
5. A Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System: And by Thomas Belden Butler (1870)
"It has little ascensive force or velocity. A moderate breeze will turn it almost
at right angles. The smoke of the most extensive conflagrations which occur ..."
6. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"The great example of ascensive action is the movement of fluid rock from the
interior outwards. The term vulcanism will be used to embrace not only volcanic ..."
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