Ascensional

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending..

Definitions by Sense

1. Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending.
2. Pertaining to an increase in status or power.
3. Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.
4. Pertaining to progress or improvement.
5. Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.
6. (astronomy) Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.

Example Sentences

The ascensional power of this balloon was very great, and being set loose in Paris, it rose with great rapidity, and at the end of four minutes had reached a height of nearly a thousand yards, when it was lost sight of by entering a cloud.

They were all anxious to give the credit of any new thing to the right person, and he though that Mr. Pink deserved whatever credit might be due to ascensional casting. But the difficulties were very great. Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby.

In the latter case, however, it may be considered that the mountain-range produces an effect in bringing the air-masses to the point of saturation, and thus preparing them for the action of the convectional ascensional movement.

A given quantity of air can be circulated round a mine for the least expenditure of power with ascensional ventilation.

Two aspects will be examined here: i – Period of change from colono (or employee) status, that is, the length of time this initial status is retained; ii – Period of ascensional change from colono (or employee) status, that is the length of time required to become independent, or, in other words, to rise to the status of self-employed farmer (renter or owner-farmer) or self-employed non-farmer (worker on own account or employer).

Yet in the young man's imagination "His Highness the vulture" has clearly regained imperial and ascensional status, radically undoing its original association with death and destruction.

Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.

The Neoplatonic scholars had concluded that man's path goes through several stages of knowledge in an ascensional direction.

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