ascensive, a.
(əˈsɛnsɪv)
[f. L. ascens- (see ascension) + -ive, as if ad. L. *ascensīvus.]
1. Characterized by upward movement or tendency; rising, advancing, progressive.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xiii. 227 Though the Sunne be then ascensive. 1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 67 The ascensive benevolence which aspires to domineer. 1863 Lyell Antiq. Man xxiv. 480 In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development. |
2. Gram. Increasing the force, augmentative, intensive.
| 1857 Ellicott Comm. Phil. iv. 12 καί appears as ascensive, ‘even.’ 1870 Moulton tr. Winer's N.T. Gram. iii. liii. 555 Sometimes its [καί's] ascensive force..is very easily recognised—see 1 Cor. vii. 21. |