Ascension
See CHRIST.
Of Elijah
2 Kings 2:1-18
Of Jesus
Mark 16:19-20; Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:9-12
Of two witnesses
Revelation 11:12
ASCEN'SION, noun [Latin ascensio.]
1. The act of ascending; a rising. It is frequently applied to the visible elevation of our Savior to Heaven.
2. The thing rising, or ascending. [not authorized.]
3. In astronomy, ascension is either right or oblique. Right ascension of the sun or of a star, is that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with the sun or star, in a right sphere. Oblique ascension is an arch 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.
ASCENSION-DAY, noun A festival of some christian churches, held ten days or on the Thursday but one, before Whitsuntide, which is called Holy Thursday, in commemoration of our Savior's ascension into heaven, after his resurrection.
Ascensional difference is the difference between the right and oblique ascension of the same point on the surface of the sphere.