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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ascension \As*cen"sion\, n. [F. ascension, L. ascensio, fr ascendere See {Ascend}.] 1. The act of ascending; a rising; ascent. 2. Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (--Acts i. 9.) Also Ascension Day 3. An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation. Vaporous ascensions from the stomach. --Sir T. Browne. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Ascension n 1: the 40th day after Easter; celebrates the Ascension of Christ into heaven [syn: {Ascension}, {Ascension Day}, {Ascension of the Lord}] 2: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: {rise}, {rising}, {ascent}] [ant: {fall}] 3: the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: {rise}, {ascent}, {ascending}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Ascension See {CHRIST}.
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