noun. The act or process of ascending; ascent.

noun. The rising of a star above the horizon.

noun. undefined

noun. In Christianity, the bodily rising of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection.

noun. A feast celebrating this event, observed on Ascension Day.

noun. 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).

noun. [capitalized] The day on which the ascension of Christ is commemorated in the church; Ascension day.

noun. That which rises or ascends; a fume.

noun. In astronomy, the rising of a star or point above the horizon on the celestial sphere.

noun. A going back in time, or in the order of genealogical succession; ascent.

noun. 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.

noun. The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

noun. Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.

noun. An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.

noun. the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. The act of ascending; an ascent

noun. (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection

noun. (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter

noun. (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon

noun. a movement upward

noun. the act of changing location in an upward direction

"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."

apparent right ascension  ascension day  oblique ascension  right ascension  

change of location  holy day of obligation  miracle  travel  

Laurentian  apprehension  attention  comprehension  condescension  

Saturn  fell  own  reincarnation  resurrection  

anabasis  apotheosis  ascent  ascent  assumption