Definition of "assurgent"

assurgent

noun
plural assurgents
1. (heraldry) A man or beast rising out of the sea.
2. (rare) Someone or something that rises.
  Quotations
  Such the command, as fabling bards recite, / When Orpheus charm’d the grisly king of night; / Sooth’d the pale phantoms with his plaintive lay, / And led the fair assurgent into day.
  1791, Erasmus Darwin, “Loves of the Plants”, in The Botanic Garden, London, published 1824, page 183
  […] the lands and premises aforesaid shall with all convenient expedition be set out and divided equally into ten several distinct parts,” &c., and cause devises, conveyances and assurgents in the law whatsoever for the better, more sure, perfect and absolute settling of said land and premises […]
  1881, Robert Bolton, Cornelius Winter Bolton, Oliver R. Willis, “The Town of New Castle”, in The history of the several towns, manors, and patents of the County of Westchester, New York, page 569
adjective
comparative more assurgent, superlative most assurgent
1. Rising or tending to rise.
2. (heraldry) Rising out of the sea.
  Quotations
  A seahorse assurgent per pale or and azure, crined gules.
  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
3. (botany) Curving upward.