assurgent

English

Etymology

From Latin assurgens, present participle of assurgo (“rise up”).

Adjective

assurgent (comparative more assurgent, superlative most assurgent)

1. Rising or tending to rise.
2. (heraldry) Rising out of the sea.
   • 1869, Robert Cooke, The Visitation of London in the Year 1568: Taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, and Since Augmented Both with Descents and Arms, page 51:

     A seahorse assurgent per pale or and azure, crined gules.

3. (botany) Curving upward.

Derived terms

• assurgency

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Latin

Verb

assurgent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of assurgō