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Ascendings
- noun - the act of changing location in an upward direction
Ascensions
- noun - (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon
- (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
- (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
- a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
Ascertains
- verb -
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
- learn or discover with certainty
Asceticism
- noun - rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
- the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state
- the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
Ascidiform
- - Shaped like an ascidian.
Asclepiads
- noun - any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae
Ascococcus
- - A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.
Ascolichen
- noun - a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete
Ascomycete
- noun - any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus