ascensive

English

Etymology

See ascend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛnsɪv/

Adjective

ascensive (comparative more ascensive, superlative most ascensive)

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. (grammar) Augmentative; intensive.
   • 1887, Charles John Ellicott, St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians: With a Critical and Grammatical Commentary:

     […] 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.

Italian

Adjective

ascensive f

1. feminine plural of ascensivo

Anagrams

• avincesse, nevicasse