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ascendant

mastery

UK /əˈsɛnd(ə)nt/ US /əˈsɛndənt/adjnoun

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What is the meaning of 'ascendant' in this sentence?

This Phœbus promis'd, I forget the Year, / VVhen thoſe blue eyes firſt open'd on the Sphere; / Aſcendant Phœbus vvatch'd that hour vvith care, / Averted half your Parents ſimple Pray'r, / And gave you Beauty, but deny'd the Pelf / That buys your Sex a Tyrant o'er itſelf: […]