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See askance2. ascend (a-send'), v. [ In our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. IMG:content-1212.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To slope upward.-4. To go backward in the order of time; proceed from modern to ancient times: as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.-5. To rise, as a star; appear above the horizon. Higher yet star ascends. hand. ity ), mastery, dominion, superiority, advantage, upper ascendant, ascendent (a-sen'dant, -dent), a. and n. [ The constellation of Pegasus cendant . is about that time as Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 4. In bot., same as ascending.-5. In her., rising or i uing upward (the reverse of i u ant ): as, rays of the sun ascendant from the bottom of the shield, from a fe e, etc. II. n. 1. In astrol ., the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac that is situated on the eastern horizon at any particular moment, as at the moment of birth or of the propounding of any question; the horoscope. The house of the ascendant includes that part of the zodiac which extends from 5° above the horizon to 25° below it. The lord of the ascendant is the planet that rules the ascendant. This planet is generally the significator of the querent, and the decision of the question depends upon its aspects. Hence, to be in the ascendant signifies to have commanding power or influence, to occupy a ruling position; and lord of the ascendant, one who has po e ion of such power or influence: as, to rule, for a while, lord of the ascendant. The as send ent sothly, as wel in alle natiuitez as in questiouns and elecciouns of tymes, is a thing which that thise Astrologiens gretly obseruen; wher-fore me semeth conuenient sin that I speke of the as send ent , to make of it special declaratioun. The as send ent sothly, to take it at forseide tymes upon the est Orisonte; and there-fore, gif that any planet a ende at that same tyme in thilke forseide degre of his longitude, Men seyn thilke planete is in horoscope. Chaucer. largest, is thilke degree that as send eth at any of thise Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant . Sir W. Temple . Marl borough had not, when Popery was in the ascendant, cro ed himself, shrived himself, done penance, taken the communion in one kind, and, as soon as a turn of fortune came, apostatized back again. IMG:content-1213.png:[blocks in formation] What star I know not, but some star, I find, Has given thee an ascendant o'er my mind. Dryden, tr. of Persius, Satires, v. 66. She had art enough to gain an entire ascendant over the Goldsmith, Voltaire. The secular authority, long unduly depre ed, regained the ascendant with startling rapidity. Macaulay, Von Ranke. 3. An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred: opposed to descen dant. The succe ion of ascendants of the deceased, of his male paternal ancestors, if any survived him. Maine , Early Law and Custom, p. 111. 4. In arch., one of the two sides or vertical members of the chambranle of a door or window. ascendence, ascendency, ascendent. See as cendance, etc.