ascensive

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/əˈsɛnsɪv/

Definition of ascensive

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
    “1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography Had I been guided in this ascensive survey of the dental system by the general perfection of the species , I must have ended with that of Man”
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adj

  1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
    “1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography Had I been guided in this ascensive survey of the dental system by the general perfection of the species , I must have ended with that of Man”
  2. Augmentative; intensive.
    “[…] it seems, however, highly probable that this is due rather to non-observance of the true ascensive force of the particle than to any real absence in the original MSS.”

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Etymology

See ascend.

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