ascensive
adj/əˈsɛnsɪv/
Etymology See ascend.
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, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Augmentative; intensive.
- […] 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.1887, Charles John Ellicott, St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians: With a Critical and Grammatical Commentary: