#ascendant

• Ascendant — Moving upward, rising, or developing in an upward direction; evolutionary, increasing. As a masculine noun, it represents a direct relative from a previous generation (parent, grandparent); in astronomy and astrology, it is the point of the ecliptic rising above the eastern horizon at the exact moment of an event or birth. Figuratively, it denotes a dominant moral influence, authority, or superiority exercised over someone.
• Ascendants — Persons from whom another is directly descended by birth, representing the previous generations of a family (parents, grandparents, great-grandparents); ancestors or forebears. In civil and inheritance law, they are classified into privileged ascendants (parents) and ordinary ascendants (grandparents, great-grandparents), having specific legal rights to the deceased's estate.