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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.

Owen.

(Gram.)

Augmentative; intensive.

Ellicott.

Adj.

Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.

ascensive ‎(comparative more ascensive, superlative most ascensive)

Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Owen to this entry?)
(grammar) Augmentative; intensive.
- Charles John Ellicott
  […] 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.

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