ASCENSION
\ɐsˈɛnʃən], \ɐsˈɛnʃən], \ɐ_s_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ASCENSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
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Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
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An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
By Oddity Software
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The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
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An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
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Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Day.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of ascending; a rising; the visible elevation of our Lord to heaven. Right ascension of a star, &c., that degree of the equator, reckoned from the beginning of Aries, which comes to the meridian at the same instant with the star Oblique ascension, an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises at the same time with a star.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of going up : right ascension, in astron., the arc of the equinoctial intercepted between the first point of Aries and the circle of declination passing through the place of the heavenly body.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
