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as⋅cen⋅sion

  [uh-sen-shuhn]
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–noun
1. the act of ascending; ascent.
2. the Ascension, the bodily ascending of Christ from earth to heaven.
3. (initial capital letter) Ascension Day.
Origin:
1300–50; ME ascencioun (< AF) < L ascēnsiōn- (s. of ascēnsiō), equiv. to ascēns(us) risen up (ptp. of ascendere, equiv. to ascend- climb up (see ascend ) + -tus ptp. suffix) + -iōn- -ion

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as⋅cen⋅sion⋅al, adjective

As⋅cen⋅sion

  [uh-sen-shuhn]
–noun
a British island in the S Atlantic Ocean: constituent part of St. Helena. 1130; 34 sq. mi. (88 sq. km).
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as·cen·sion   (ə-sěn'shən)   
n.  
  1. The act or process of ascending; ascent.
  2. Astronomy The rising of a star above the horizon.
  3. Ascension
    1. In Christianity, the bodily rising of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection.
    2. A feast celebrating this event, observed on Ascension Day.

[Middle English ascensioun, from Old French ascention, from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōn-, from ascēnsus, past participle of ascendere, to ascend; see ascend.]
as·cen'sion·al adj.
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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.
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Language Translation for : ascension
Spanish: Ascensión,
Italian: Ascensione,
Japanese: キリスト昇天
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Ascension

See CHRIST.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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