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- English Word Ascension Definition Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
- English Word Ascension Definition An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
- English Word Ascensional Definition Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.
- English Word Ascensive Definition Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
- English Word Ascensive Definition Augmentative; intensive.
- English Word Ascent Definition The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
- English Word Ascent Definition The way or means by which one ascends.
- English Word Ascent Definition An eminence, hill, or high place.
- English Word Ascent Definition The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
- English Word Ascertain Definition To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
- English Word Ascertain Definition To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine.
- English Word Ascertain Definition To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.
- English Word Ascertainable Definition That may be ascertained.
- English Word Ascertained Definition of Ascertain
- English Word Ascertainer Definition One who ascertains.
- English Word Ascertaining Definition of Ascertain
- English Word Ascertainment Definition The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.
- English Word Ascessancy Definition Alt. of Ascessant
- English Word Ascessant Definition See Acescency, Acescent.
- English Word Ascetic Definition Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
- English Word Ascetic Definition In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
- English Word Asceticism Definition The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.
- English Word Ascham Definition A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.
- English Word Asci Definition See Ascus.
- English Word Ascian Definition One of the Ascii.
- English Word Ascians Definition Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.
- English Word Ascidia Definition of Ascidium
- English Word Ascidian Definition One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.
- English Word Ascidiarium Definition The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.
- English Word Ascidiform Definition Shaped like an ascidian.