Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Rising or tending to rise.
- adjective Botany Slanting or curving upward; ascending.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rising; ascending. Specifically
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Ascending.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry A
man orbeast rising out of thesea . - adjective Rising or tending to rise.
- adjective botany Curving upward.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective rising from the sea
- adjective growing or extending upward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It has a procumbent, assurgent, geniculate stem, which roots at the joints; the leaves are hairy, with spikes shorter than the joints.
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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.
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A sea-horse, assurgent Or, 'maned Az. supporting a cross patee Gu.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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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
Canto II 1803
hernesheir commented on the word assurgent
Anyone else notice that the words surge and gent appear within this word?
October 9, 2011
yarb commented on the word assurgent
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!
October 9, 2011
yarb commented on the word assurgent
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.
October 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word assurgent
So you're enjoying "A Melon for Ecstasy" then, I take it, yarb?
October 9, 2011
yarb commented on the word assurgent
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.
October 11, 2011