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运星,运道,支配力,优势上升的,占优势的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ascendant \As*cend"ant\, Ascendent \As*cend"ent\, a.
   1. Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.

            The constellation . . . about that time ascendant.
                                                  --Browne.

   2. Rising; ascending. --Ruskin.

   3. Superior; surpassing; ruling.

            An ascendant spirit over him.         --South.

            The ascendant community obtained a surplus of
            wealth.                               --J. S. Mill.

            Without some power of persuading or confuting, of
            defending himself against accusations, . . . no man
            could possibly hold an ascendent position. --Grote.

Ascendant \As*cend"ant\, n. [F. ascendant, L. ascendens; p. pr.
   of ascendere.]
   1. Ascent; height; elevation. [R.]

            Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant.
                                                  --Temple.

   2. (Astrol.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic
      which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's
      birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a
      person's life and fortune.

   Note: Hence the phrases

   {To be in the ascendant}, to have commanding power or
      influence, and

   {Lord of the ascendant}, one who has possession of such power
      or influence; as, to rule, for a while, lord of the
      ascendant. --Burke.

   3. Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one
      man has the ascendant over another.

            Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young
            monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a
            parent.                               --Robertson.

   4. An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees
      of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a
      progenitor; -- opposed to {descendant}. --Ayliffe.

资料来源 : WordNet®

ascendant
     adj 1: tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength
            like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn: {ascendent},
            {ascensive}]
     2: most powerful or important or influential; "the economically
        ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating
        event of the war in Europe" [syn: {ascendent}, {dominating}]
     n 1: position or state of being dominant or in control; "that
          idea was in the ascendant" [syn: {ascendent}]
     2: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote
        than a grandparent) [syn: {ancestor}, {ascendent}, {antecedent},
         {root}] [ant: {descendant}]