Word Meaning

Meaning of "ascendants" and the crossword clue

- Rising
- Ascent; height; elevation.
- 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.
- Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
- An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
- Alt. of Ascendent