Difference between Ancestor and Ascendent

ANCESTOR vs ASCENDENT: NOUN

A person from whom one is descended, especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear.
A forerunner or predecessor.
The person from whom an estate has been inherited.
The actual or hypothetical organism or stock from which later kinds evolved.
One from whom a person is descended in the line of either father or mother; a forefather; a progenitor.
In law, one, whether a progenitor or a collateral relative, who has preceded another in the course of inheritance; one from whom an inheritance is derived: the correlative of heir: sometimes used specifically of the immediate progenitor.
In biology, according to the theory of evolution, the hypothetical form or stock, of an earlier and presumably lower type, from which any organized being is inferred to have been directly or indirectly developed.
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
An earlier type; a progenitor.
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
One who had the same role or function in former times.
One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

Position or state of being dominant or in control
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
A person from whom one is descended.
A position of power or control.

Patrimonial, Precursor, Ascendancy, Predecessor, Tso, Forerunner, Kin, Progenitor, Grandfather, Forebear, Ancestral, Ascendent, Ancestry, Ascendant, Antecedent

Descendant, Bottom up, Ceremony, Patrimonial, Ascendancy, Predecessor, Forerunner, Kin, Progenitor, Grandfather, Ancestral, Ascendent, Ancestry, Ascendant, Antecedent

Abraham the ancestor of the Hebrew people is the ancestor that the Israelites that became the Igbo took his title as their collective name.
Parentelic anybody who is a close ancestor will take in preference to somebody who is a more remote ancestor.
Clearly a parent is an ancestor of a child, and any ancestor of a parent is also an ancestor of the child.
The applicant for Veteran, Defender and Citizen ancestor medallions must provide documentation bysubmitting the proof of service for the ancestor as outlined below.
Duke Raus was an ancestor worshipper, and as head of the family also the chief priest of the ancestor cult.
In the case of English and French, this ancestor language is usually Latin, but other pairs of languages have different ancestor languages.
Paraphyletic groups contain a common ancestor, but not all its descendents; and polyphyletic groups have no common ancestor within the group.
If your ancestor had a United States passport, your ancestor completed the naturalization process and was a US Citizen.
Sequeira emphasizes the fact dealing with the Israelites having a common ancestor, Abraham, going back to the first ancestor, Adam.
How do you determine if an ancestor is a gateway ancestor?

To cope, Maronite leaders have forged new alliances: one with the ascendent Shiite group, Hezbollah; another with a coalition of Sunnis and Druze.
Inducerea si mentinerea remisiunilor i n rnaladia Crohn, la pacientii cu afectare usoars si moderata a ileonului silsau colonului ascendent.
Hope tries to find out where the ascendent is from Alyssa and questions her.
Ehran the Scribe publishes his first book Mankind Ascendent.
UTI, generally caused by intestinal microflora, ascendent infection.