Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Rising or tending to rise.
- adj. Botany Slanting or curving upward; ascending.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rising; ascending. Specifically In heraldry, applied to a bearing when depicted as rising out of the sea, as the sun.
Wiktionary
- n. heraldry A man or beast rising out of the sea.
- adj. Rising or tending to rise.
- adj. botany Curving upward.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Ascending. rising obliquely; curving upward.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. rising from the sea
- adj. growing or extending upward
Etymologies
- From Latin assurgens, present participle of assurgo ("rise up"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin assurgēns, assurgent-, present participle of assurgere, to rise up to : ad-, ad- + surgere, to rise; see surge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It has a procumbent, assurgent, geniculate stem, which roots at the joints; the leaves are hairy, with spikes shorter than the joints.”
“That weakness which we have seen will start to abate and if we get a break through that dollar index say 75.80 then I think that will be the trip point for me to where I will start to think that assurgent for copper will actually slow.”
“A sea-horse, assurgent Or, 'maned Az. supporting a cross patee Gu.”
Internet Archive: Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
“a resurrection from the dead; whence his funeral and return to life were celebrated for many ages in Egypt and Syria, the ceremonies of which Ezekiel complains as idolatrous, accusing the women of Israel of lamenting over Thammus; which St. Cyril interprets to be Adonis, in his Commentaries on Isaiah; Danet's Diction.p. Pleased for a while the assurgent youth above”
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Uppity
Words and concepts of up. Literally or figuratively.
climb, arise, levitate, ascend, excelsior!, assurgent, arbeiration, elevate, raise, boost, acclivous, anabatic and 16 more...
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excelsior
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
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List of Heraldry Terms
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Pseudorandom words
Words found through Wordie's random word function. I didn't take phrases, foreign, misspelled, or madeupical words, so I looked at about 200 words to assemble this list.
I was surprise...ishkabibble, jericho, inopercular, oppositional, puerility, chronometer, cavern, cisternae, osteospermum, boxcar, misandry, savannah and 88 more...
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Tweets
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yarb I do not recall writing those comments. Sionnach, it hasn't arrived yet! It's being shipped from the UK I think. Can't wait to get stuck into a mess of arboreal erotica. Oct 11, 2011
sionnach So you're enjoying "A Melon for Ecstasy" then, I take it, yarb? Oct 9, 2011
yarb I also see ent - so I am going now to have intercourse with trees, I'm going into the vast forests of this province. My stride is such that in two days I will be out of Moot distance, and for those of you who don't know what that means - it was a Beta version called the "Tree". - I am surrounded by the bloody things but soon it will just be one vast plain full of escapists and associated Apple ghouls. Oct 9, 2011
yarb I also noticed the words ass, urge and gen - and the backword us, which seem to explain everything, When the great middle-class revolt occurs, this page will be the Rosetta Stone. Or do I mean the Golden Bough? Yes, the latter. Sorry Rosetta Stone! Oct 9, 2011
hernesheir Anyone else notice that the words surge and gent appear within this word? Oct 9, 2011