Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of ascending; ascent.
- n. Astronomy The rising of a star above the horizon.
- n. In Christianity, the bodily rising of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection.
- n. A feast celebrating this event, observed on Ascension Day.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of ascending; a rising; specifically, the bodily passing from earth to heaven of Christ, in the presence of his disciples (Mark xvi. 19; Luke xxiv. 50, 51; Acts i. 1–11).
- n. [capitalized] The day on which the ascension of Christ is commemorated in the church; Ascension day.
- n. That which rises or ascends; a fume.
- n. In astronomy, the rising of a star or point above the horizon on the celestial sphere.
- n. A going back in time, or in the order of genealogical succession; ascent.
- n. In mod. astron., the right ascension of a star or point of the sphere is the arc of the equator intercepted between its circle of declination and the vernal equinox or first point of Aries, reckoned toward the east. This meaning is derived from the conception of an observer at a point on the earth's equator where all the stars rise vertically.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
- n. Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
- n. An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
- n. (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
- n. (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon
- n. a movement upward
- n. the act of changing location in an upward direction
Etymologies
- From Latin ascensio ("ascent") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English ascensioun, from Old French ascention, from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōn-, from ascēnsus, past participle of ascendere, to ascend; see ascend. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The state of your family will suggest level of (dis) favor and tell whether ascension is a realistic possibility; there are many levels of disfavor and the clues they offer to the unaware can be very subtle.”
“And he taught them that after Jesus had manifested himself to his disciples to be that Christ that was crucified, dead and buried; and by his appearing and conversing with his disciples for the space of forty days after his resurrection, he then, and not will the, ascended into heaven in the sight of those disciples; namely, on that day which we call the ascension, or Holy Thursday.”
“As they resembled Him in their three and a half years 'witnessing, their three and a half days lying in death (though not for exactly the same time, nor put in a tomb as He was), so also in their ascension is the translation and transfiguration of the sealed of Israel (Re 7: 1-8), and the elect of all nations, caught up out of the reach of the”
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“Seven-foot Brian Zoubek added a free throw with 3.6 seconds left, the final touch on an eight-point, 10-rebound, two-block night that capped a remarkable ascension from the bench and career oblivion in the final two months of his career at Duke.”
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“What's remarkable about Maddow's ascension is not its velocity -- Hurricane Katrina made Anderson Cooper in less than a week -- but the shifts in media it may demarcate.”
“But Spacek was not the only star in ascension here.”
“I am not one to sit on my asteroid while those whose moon is in ascension, parade about showing their black holes, not knowing the full gravity of what they are doing.”
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