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ascension day
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ascension \As*cen"sion\, n. [F. ascension, L. ascensio, fr. ascendere. See Ascend.]
The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (
--Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.-
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.
Wiktionary
n. The fortieth day of Easter, that is the Thursday 39 days after Easter.
Usage examples of "ascension day".
From that ascension day on, Rouleau found it impossible to buy a beer, a meal or even a pretzel in Sió.
Mannx clapped his small, pudgy hands like a boy on his Ascension day.
A trip to Chatou was arranged for Ascension Day, May 18, by the train leaving Paris from the St.
In June, 1878, the South Wales Daily News recorded a superstition of the quarrymen at Penrhyn, where some thousands of men refused to work on Ascension Day.
Chesterton | A grand ap-pre-c-a-ti-on | Of Brixton on Ascension Day.