a. [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 developement.
2. Gram. Increasing the force, augmentative, intensive.
1857. Ellicott, Comm. Phil., iv. 12. Καί appears as ascensive, ‘even.’
1870. Moulton, trans. Winer’s N. T. Gram., III. liii. 555. Sometimes its [καί’s] ascensive force … is very easily recognised—see 1 Cor. vii. 21.
