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ascension|əˈsɛnʃən|
Also 4–6 assencion, -sioun, etc., 6–7 ascention.
[ad. L. ascensiōn-em, n. of action f. ascens- ppl. stem of ascendĕre: see ascend and -ion1. Largely replaced by ascent, exc. in the specific senses 2, 3, which were also the earliest in English.]
1. gen. The action of ascending, upward movement.
1596Chapman Iliad i. 475 And then the ever-living gods mounted Olympus, Jove First in ascension. 1660Boyle New Exper. Phys.-Mech. xxiv. 193 In their ascension they kept an almost equal distance from each other. a1711Ken Serm. Wks. 1838, 131 Kept the fire always burning, always in ascension, always aspiring towards heaven. 1864R. Chambers Bk. Days II. 346 To attempt an ascension in such an unwieldy machine. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Ascension-theory, the theory that the matter filling fissure-veins was introduced in solution from below.
2. spec. The ascent of Jesus Christ to heaven on the fortieth day after His resurrection. Occas. used for Ascension-day. (The earliest use in Eng.)
c1315Shoreham 126 Fram Crystes resurreccioun, Wat cometh hys ascencion, At fourty daȝen ende. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. ii. 103 Eftyr þe Resurrectyowne of Cryst, and his Ascensyowne. 1539Tonstall Serm. Palme Sund. (1823) 17 The aungelles of heuen at his ascention gloryfied in hym the nature of man. 1667Milton P.L. x. 185 And with ascention bright, Captivity led captive. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. viii. 134 Ascension was observed about the time of Austin.
b. Ascension-day: the day on which this event took place, and on which it is annually commemorated; Holy Thursday.
1366Mandeville viii. 96 Fro that mount steighe oure Lord Iesu Crist to hevene, upon Ascenciounday. 1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 151 Ere the next Ascension day at noone. 1808Scott Marm. ii. xiii, This, on Ascension-day each year..Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear.
3. Astr. The rising of a celestial body; formerly, also, the increasing elevation of the sun in the heavens between the vernal equinox and summer solstice. right ascension of the sun or a star: the degree of the equinoctial or celestial equator, reckoned from the first point in Aries, which rises with it in a right sphere, or which comes with it to the meridian; the arc of the equator intercepted between this degree and the first point of Aries; celestial longitude. oblique ascension of a star: the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises with the sun or star in an oblique sphere.
c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 35 He knew ech ascencion of equinoxial. 1556Recorde Cast. Knowl. 197 Ascension astronomicall is the certaine limitation of som pointe of the equinoctiall circle, whiche riseth iustelye with any starre. 1599Thynne Animadv. 62 The sonne was not farre from the middle of his ascentione. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 224 The cosmicall ascension of a starre we terme that, when it ariseth together with the Sun. 1796Hutton Math. Dict. I. 148 When the sun has north declination, the right ascension is greater than the oblique. 1874Moseley Astron. ix. 43 Knowing the right ascension and declination of a star, we know its exact position in the great sphere of the heavens.
†4. Alch. Distillation, evaporation. Hence concr. that which arises as if from distillation, a fume.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 225 Ne eek oure spirites ascencioun. 1594Plat Jewell Ho., Chim. Concl. 6 In this rectifying by ascension you shall lose a great part of their tincture. 1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. iii, Two Of our inferiour workes are at fixation, A third is in ascension. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. (J.) Conceiving the brain doth only suffer from vaporous ascensions from the stomach. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. v. 102 Successive particles..distilled, or filtrated by ascension.
†5. fig. Rise from the inferior to the superior; rise or advancement in thought or feeling, in station, dignity, or estimation; ascent. Obs.
1617Wither Fidelia in Juven. (1633) 483 And to what height Towre in my new ascension to delight? 1627Feltham Resolves i. xxxiii. Wks. 1677, 56 To some, there is not a greater vexation, than to be advised by an Inferior. Directions are unwelcome, that come to us by ascensions. 1670Walton Hooker 39 This bishop's ascension to this place of dignity and cares. 1681Let. in Harl. Misc. (1793) 467 To facilitate his ascension to the throne.
†6. A going back in the order of genealogical succession; reversion to an ancestor; ascent. Obs.
1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 2 b, Hee commeth unto the lande by collaterall discent and not by lineall ascension. 1628Coke On Litt. 11 a, Lineall ascention in the right line is prohibited.
7. Way of ascending, upward slope, ascent. arch.
1447O. Bokenham Lyvys of Seyntys 59 Grees of marbyl..Be whiche to the temple was the ascencyon. 1816Southey Poet's Pilgr. i. viii. Wks. X. 59 Round and round The spiral steps in long ascension wound.
▸ ascension robe n. U.S. (usu. in pl.) a garment worn in readiness for one's ascension to heaven (in imitation of the appearance of Christ's garments at his transfiguration); spec. a muslin robe worn amongst the Millerites in the expectation of the advent of Christ.
1843Nauvoo (Illinois) Neighbor 7 June 3/5 Several Millerites in that city walked the streets and fields all day arrayed in their *ascension robes. 1915L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island ix. 87 If a week should pass without some one telling me that I am doing easy work for big pay I would conclude that I might as well order my ascension robe ‘immediately and to onct’. 1991Wilson Q. Spring 27/1 Thousands of Christians put on their ascension robes and gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture. |
