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Meaning of ascensive | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

/əˈsɛnsɪv/

Definitions

Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
Augmentative; intensive.

Examples

“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”

“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

ascertainable ascescent ascetic ascetical ascetick aschematic