meaning of ascendant
1. Ascent; height; elevation.
2. The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of ones birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a persons life and fortune.
3. Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
4. An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
5. Alt. of Ascendent
6. someone from whom you are descended but usually more remote than a grandparent
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