Ascensive \As*cen"sive\, a. [See {Ascend}.] 1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. --Owen. 2. (Gram.) Augmentative; intensive. --Ellicott.
ascensive adj : tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn: {ascendant}, {ascendent}]