ASCEND
ASCEND', verb intransitive [Latin ascendo, from scando, to mount or climb.]1. To move upwards; to mount; to go up; to rise, whether in air or water, or upon a material object.2....
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ASCENDABLE
ASCEND'ABLE, adjective That may be ascended.
ASCENDANT
ASCEND'ANT, noun1. Superiority or commanding influence; as, one man has the ascendant over another.2. An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy, or degrees of kindred; oppos...
ASCENDED
ASCEND'ED, participle passive or adjective Risen; mounted up; gone to heaven.
ASCENDENCY
ASCEND'ENCY, noun Power; governing or controlling influence.Custom has an ascendency over the understanding.
ASCENDING
ASCEND'ING, participle present tense Rising; moving upwards; proceeding from the less to the greater; proceeding from modern to ancient, from grave to more acute. A star is said...
ASCENSION
ASCEN'SION, noun [Latin ascensio.]1. The act of ascending; a rising. It is frequently applied to the visible elevation of our Savior to Heaven.2. The thing rising, or ascending....
ASCENSION-DAY
ASCENSION-DAY, noun A festival of some christian churches, held ten days or on the Thursday but one, before Whitsuntide, which is called Holy Thursday, in commemoration of our S...
ASCENSIVE
ASCEN'SIVE, adjective Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
ASCENT
ASCENT', noun [Latin ascensus.]1. The act of rising; motion upwards, whether in air, water or other fluid, or on elevated objects; rise; a mounting upwards; as the ascent of vap...
ASCERTAIN
ASCERTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin ad certum, to a certainty.]1. To make certain; to define or reduce to precision by moving obscurity or ambiguity.The divine law ascertains the...
ASCERTAINABLE
ASCERTA'INABLE, adjective That may be made certain in fact, or certain to the mind; that may be certainly known or reduced to a certainty.
ASCERTAINED
ASCERTA'INED, participle passive Made certain; defined; established; reduced to a certainty.
ASCERTAINER
ASCERTA'INER, noun The person who ascertains or makes certain.
ASCERTAINING
ASCERTA'INING, participle present tense Making certain; fixing; establishing; reducing to a certainty; obtaining certain knowledge.
ASCERTAINMENT
ASCERTA'INMENT, noun The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; certainty; fixed rule.
ASCESSANCY
ASCESSANCY,ASCESSANT, See Acescency, Acescent.]
ASCESSANT
ASCESSANT, See Acescency, Acescent.]
ASCETIC
ASCET'IC, adjective [Gr. exercised, hardened; from to exercise.Retired from the world; rigid; severe; austere; employed in devotions and mortifications.ASCET'IC, noun1. One who ...
ASCIAN
AS'CIAN, noun [Latin ascii, from Gr. priv. and a shadow.]A person, who, at certain times of the year, has no shadow at noon. Such are the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who hav...
ASCITANS
AS'CITANS, noun [Gr. a bag or bottle of skin.]A sect or branch of Montanists, who appeared in the second century. They introduced into their assemblies, certain bacchanals, who ...
ASCITES
AS'CITES, noun [Gr. a bladder.]A dropsy or tense elastic swelling of the belly, with fluctuation, from a collection of water.
ASCITIC
ASCIT'ICASCIT'ICAL, adjective Belonging to an ascites; dropsical; hydropical.
ASCITITIOUS
ASCITI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin ascitus; Low Latin ascititius, from ascisco, to take to or associate.]Additional; added; supplemental; not inherent or original.Homer has been rec...
ASCLEPIAD
ASCLE'PIAD, noun In ancient poetry, a verse of four feet, the first of which is a spondee, the second a choriamb, and the last two, dactyls; or of four feet and a cesura, the fi...
ASCRIBABLE
ASCRI'BABLE, adjective [See Ascribe.] That may be ascribed or attributed.
ASCRIBE
ASCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin ascribo, of ad and scribo, to write.]1. To attribute, impute, or set to, as to a cause; to assign, as effect to a cause; as, losses are often to...