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ascension

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ascension has 5 senses

ascension(n = noun.time) ascension day, ascension of the lord - (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter; Array

is a kind of holy day of obligation

ascension(n = noun.event) ascent, rise, rising - a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"

is a kind of change of location, travel

has particulars: climb, climbing, mounting, elevation, lift, raising, heave, heaving, liftoff, rapid climb, rapid growth, zoom, takeoff, upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust, uplifting

Derived forms verb ascend₁, adjective ascensional₁

ascension(n = noun.event) ascension of christ - (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection; Array

is a kind of miracle

ascension(n = noun.event) Array - (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon; Array

is a kind of

change of location

travel

Derived forms verb ascend₇, adjective ascensional₁

ascension(n = noun.act) ascending, ascent, rise - the act of changing location in an upward direction; Array

is a kind of motion, move, movement

has particulars: levitation, heave, heaving, climb, mount, soar, zoom

Derived forms verb ascend₁, adjective ascensional₁

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ascension, n. [F. ascension, L. ascensio, fr. ascendere. See Ascend.].

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent. [1913 Webster]
Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day. [1913 Webster]
An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation. [1913 Webster]
"Vaporous ascensions from the stomach." [1913 Webster]

Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises together with a star, in an oblique sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the horizon with a star. It is little used in modern astronomy.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

ascension, n.
1 the act or an instance of ascending.
2 (Ascension) the ascent of Christ into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection.

Idiom

Ascension Day the Thursday on which this is celebrated annually. right ascension Astron. longitude measured along the celestial equator.

Derivative

ascensional adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L ascensio -onis (as ASCEND, -ION)

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THESAURUS

ascension

anabasis, apotheosis, ascent, assumption, clamber, climb, climbing, elevation, escalade, fountain, gathering, gush, gyring up, increase, jet, jump, leap, levitation, mount, mounting, resurrection, rise, rising, rocketing up, saltation, shooting up, soaring, spout, spring, spurt, surge, takeoff, taking off, the Ascension, the Assumption, translation, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, zooming

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ascension

Ascent

N ascent, ascension, rising, acclivity, hill, flight of steps, flight of stairs, ladder rocket, lark, sky rocket, sky lark, Alpine Club, rising, scandent, buoyant, supernatant, superfluitant, excelsior, uphill.

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