(Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
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a movement upward
<noun.event> they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon
(New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
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(astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon
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the act of changing location in an upward direction
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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.
And he doesn't necessarily view Atlanta as a double-A stop in the ascension to Broadway's major league.
It was occasioned in 1983 by the ascension of Yuri Andropov to the post of general secretary.
The exiled 73-year-old son of Emperor Haile Selassie on Friday announced his ascension to the imperial throne of Ethiopia, where a Marxist government rules.
But with Frank Carlucci's ascension to the Defense Department's top job, economic considerations have gained ground in foreign-investment decisions.
"We can expect during the full-power ascension _ unless it goes absolutely flawlessly, which would be unusual _ there are times when we will take the unit off line to do some adjustments," he said.
The formal declaration of ascension to the throne, however, will be broadcast on national television, the first time common Japanese will be able to view the solemn rite.
Paul." And as fast as was his ascension to the Senate, Sen. Tsongas aspired to go even higher.
Replicas of the sword and mirror, themselves ancient, are used in imperial ascension ceremonies.
Akihito, 55, immediately succeeded to the throne upon his father's death but he still is expected to perform a series of ascension rites that the government defends as ceremonies permitted under the constitution.
The three, Mike Slate, Mary Constancio and Theresa Werner, said that Mary told them to expect a miracle on today's Feast of the Assumption, the day Catholics celebrate the ascension of Mary into heaven.