ascendant

Meanings

Adjective

• Rising, moving upward.
• Surpassing or controlling.

Noun

• Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
• An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
• (usu. followed by to) A royal heir assuming (a place of power)
• 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.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French ascendant, from Latin ascendens.