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Ascension   /əsˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Ascension

noun
1.
(Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter.  Synonyms: Ascension Day, Ascension of the Lord.
2.
A movement upward.  Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising.
3.
(New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection.  Synonym: Ascension of Christ.
4.
(astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon.
5.
The act of changing location in an upward direction.  Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise.



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Ascension Day
Ascension of Christ
Ascension of the Lord
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... made during portions of three lunations of the transit of the moon's bright limb and of such tabulated stars as differed but little in right ascension and declination from the moon, in order to obtain additional data to those furnished by chronometrical comparisons with the meridian of Boston for computing the ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 3: Martin Van Buren • James D. Richardson
... can get anything more out of Mark, whose gospel, by the way, is supposed to be older than Matthew's. Mark is brief; and it does not take long to discover that he adds nothing to Matthew except the ending of the story by Christ's ascension into heaven, and the news that many women had come with Jesus to Jerusalem, including Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. On the other hand Mark says nothing about the birth of Jesus, and ...
— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw
... distance the tomb, with the stone rolled away, and life-size angels standing there with uplifted wings. Then farther along the road, perhaps another quarter mile away, on another hill, were the figures of the disciples, and the women watching the ascension with rapt faces, and a glory ...
— Soldier Silhouettes on our Front • William L. Stidger
... giants in six weeks? What was it that turned their narrowness into breadth; that made them start up all at once as heroes, and that so swiftly matured them, as the fruits and flowers are ripened under tropical sunshine? The resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ had a great deal to do with the change; but they were not its whole cause. There is no explanation of the extraordinary transformation of these men as we see them in the pages of ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren
... that something like 5 pounds ought to be given to us for undertaking a journey so perilous, it was mutually decided that we should keep down. Why, it would be a sort of agony to ascend the spire under the most favourable circumstances; and as one might only tumble down if ascension were achieved, the safest plan is to keep down altogether. We have often philosophised on the question of punishment, and, locally speaking, we have come to this conclusion, that agony would be sufficiently piled in any case of crime, if the delinquent were just hoisted ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus


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