Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ascensive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ascensive \As*cen"sive\, a. [See {Ascend}.]
1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. --Owen.
2. (Gram.) Augmentative; intensive. --Ellicott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ascensive
adj : tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength
like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn: {ascendant}, {ascendent}]
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