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Definition: Ascension Day |
Ascension DayNoun1. The 40th day after Easter; celebrates the Ascension of Christ into heaven. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Ascension Day or Holy Thursday. The day set apart by the Catholic and Anglican Church to commemorate the ascent of our Lord from earth to heaven. Formerly it was customary to beat the bounds of each respective parish on this day, and many practical jokes were played even during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, to make the boys remember the delimitations: such as "bumping them," pouring water clandestinely on them from house windows, beating them with thin rods, etc. Beating the bounds was called in Scotland Riding the marches (bounds). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The Ascension is one of the great feasts in the Christian liturgical calendar, and refers to the Ascension of Jesus Christ into Heaven forty days after His resurrection from the dead. The event is recorded in the New Testament in Acts chapter 1.Ascension Day is always a Thursday; in some churches it is commemorated on the subsequent Sunday (the Sunday before Pentecost). In some countries (e.g. Scandinavia or Germany) it is a public holiday.
Ascension Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean is so named because it was first recorded on Ascension Day 1503.
Ascension Parish is a parish in Louisiana. (In that state a parish is equivalent to a county).
More generally, an ascension is the act of ascending, usually to a significantly higher personal state, as the ascension of a king to the throne. A physical act of ascending, such as in mountain climbing is more commonly called an ascent.
Mage: The Ascension is a role-playing game.
In astronomy, right ascension is used to describe positions in the sky.
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Synonyms: Ascension DaySynonyms: Ascension (n), Ascension of the Lord (n). (additional references) |
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Rite | Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day |
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Crosswords: Ascension Day |
| English words defined with "Ascension Day": Rogation Day, Rogation days. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Ascension Day": Beating the Bounds ♦ Chestnut Sunday ♦ Feasts ♦ Rings Noted in Fable. (references) |
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Travel | Finland | The national holidays in 2002 are: New Year's Day (January 1); Epiphany (January 6); Good Friday (March 29); Easter (March 31 - April 1); May Day (May 1); Ascension Day (May 9); Mid-Summer (June 22); All Saints' Day (November 2); Independence Day (December 6); Christmas (December 25-26). (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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ascension day | 24 |
ascension day mason timothy | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Ascension Day"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Hemelvaartdag (Ascension). (various references) | |
Arabic | عيد الصعود خميس الصعود. (various references) | |
Danish | Kristi Himmelfartsdag. (various references) | |
Dutch | hemelvaartsdag. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĉielirtago. (various references) | |
Finnish | helatorstai. (various references) | |
French | Ascension (ascendency, ascension, ascent, place of ascent), jour de l'ascension. (various references) | |
Frisian | Himelfeartsdei. (various references) | |
German | Himmelfahrtstag. (various references) | |
Hungarian | áldozócsütörtök (holy thursday). (various references) | |
Italian | Ascensione (advancement, ascendency, ascension, ascent, mounting). (various references) | |
Manx | Jerdein Frastyl. (various references) | |
Papiamen | Asenshon (Ascension). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ascensionay ayday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Ascensão (accession, ascension, ascent, climb, rise, rising, uprise, upswing). (various references) | |
Spanish | Ascensión (ascension). (various references) | |
Swedish | Kristi himmelsfärdsdag. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ascensio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-y" | |
-2 letters: dissonance. | |
-3 letters: ascension, assonance, canonised, canonises, diocesans. | |
-4 letters: acidness, acidoses, adenosis, adonises, anodynes, anodynic, canoness, canonise, codeinas, cyanides, cyanines, cyanosed, cyanoses, cyanosis, diocesan, ecdysons, nonacids, sannyasi, scandias, scansion, sonances. | |
-5 letters: acedias, acinose, acnodes, aeonian, ancones, annoyed, anodyne, ascends, assayed, caisson, candies, canines, canyons, caseins, casinos, cassino, cession, codeias, codeina, codeins, conines, cosines, coyness, cyanide. | |
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