ascensional

adjective6

1. •
   Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending.

   • A given quantity of air can be circulated round a mine for the least expenditure of power with ascensional ventilation. — 1913
2. •
   Pertaining to an increase in status or power.

   • Yet in the young man's imagination "His Highness the vulture" has clearly regained imperial and ascensional status, radically undoing its original association with death and destruction. — 1993
3. •
   Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.

   • The Neoplatonic scholars had concluded that man's path goes through several stages of knowledge in an ascensional direction. — 1983
4. •
   Pertaining to progress or improvement.

   • To begin with, both models see social change as evolutionary and as an 'ascensional spiral towards progress.' — 2006
5. •
   Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.

   • Spiritual achievement was conceived in ascensional terms, rather than, for example, in term ^([sic]) of enlightenment or incarnation.” — 2014
6. •
   Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.