Crossword-Solution: ASCENDANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ascendant | n. | Ascent; height; elevation. |
| Ascendant | n. | 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. |
| Ascendant | n. | Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another. |
| Ascendant | n. | An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. |
| Ascendant | a. | Alt. of Ascendent |
We have 25 clues for the answer “ASCENDANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| position or state of being dominant or in control | 1 answer |
| ascendent | 1 answer |
| State of being in control | 1 answer |
| RISING towards zenith | 1 answer |
| RISING above eastern horizon | 1 answer |
| Position of dominance. | 1 answer |
| Like certain signs in horoscopes | 1 answer |
| Holding a position of influence | 1 answer |
| Another term for a rising sign, in astrology | 1 answer |
| Moving upward | 3 answers |
| primogenitor | 3 answers |
| On the rise | 8 answers |
| Forebear | 15 answers |
| Progenitor. | 16 answers |
| ancestor | 33 answers |
| predominant | 36 answers |
| predecessor | 37 answers |
| guiding | 41 answers |
| Precursor. | 60 answers |
| Major | 61 answers |
| Dominant | 64 answers |
| rising | 71 answers |
| CENTRAL ___ | 84 answers |
| Degree | 97 answers |
| Leading | 104 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASCENDANT (5)
Thy happy star ascendant brought us luck, O let it not decline! If thou wouldst rule This land, as now thou reignest, better sure To rule a peopled than a desert realm.
Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
John Welsh on the Craigdowhill, and ‘took the heavens, earth, and sun in the firmament that was shining on us, as also the ambassador who made the offer, and _the clerk who raised the psalms_, to witness that I did give myself away to the Lord in a personal and perpetual covenant never to be forgotten’; and already, in 1675, the birth of my direct ascendant was registered in Glasgow.
And your rhymes are all of loving, as within the old days when Love was lord of the ascendant in the horoscopes of men.
But the sermon came to an end without any line of conduct having suggested itself; and I walked home in some depression, feeling sadly that Venus was in the ascendant and in direful opposition, while Auriga--the circus star--drooped declinant, perilously near the horizon.
Quotes with ASCENDANT (3)
It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted a forehead of stunning gold above the horizon, lifted straight out of filigreed, light-intoxicated clouds that lay on the skyline in attendant veils. Behind us, the sun was setting in a simultaneous congruent withdrawal and the river turned to flame in a quiet duel of gold.... The new gold of moon astonishing and ascendant, he depleted gold of sunset e…
The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most ter…
Having sent gifts and messengers to the oracle at Delphi, the king of the Lydians sent this message: "[The king] asks you again now whether he shall march against the Persians, and if so, whether he shall join with himself any army of men as allies." The oracle replied that, "if he should march against the Persians he should destroy a great empire." Little did he know which empire he was to destroy. It was to be his own, of course, as Cyrus the Great was ascendant. Quotations from Herodotus' Histories.
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Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).