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Ascensive

//əˈsɛnsɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 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. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending or directed upward wordnet

Etymology

See ascend.

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