ascensional

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Relating to upward movement

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

   • 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Pertaining to an increase in status or power.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.

   • The Neoplatonic scholars had concluded that man's path goes through several stages of knowledge in an ascensional direction.
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   1. 4

      Pertaining to progress or improvement.

      • To begin with, both models see social change as evolutionary and as an 'ascensional spiral towards progress.'
   2. 5

      Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.

      • We may place in the second rank those who have reached the middle of the ascensional ladder, those who have achieved the degree of purification in which aspiration after perfection has become the ruling desire.
      • Spiritual achievement was conceived in ascensional terms, rather than, for example, in term ^([sic]) of enlightenment or incarnation.”
   3. 6

      Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.

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