Ascension, as-sen'-shun, s

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, Ashlaring, which comes to the meridian at the same instant with the star [Astron.] Oblique ascension, an arc of Ashore, the equator, intercepted between the first point of Ash-pan, Aries and that point of the equator which rises at Ash-pit, the same time with a star. Ash Wednesday,