Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reascending; a remounting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of reascending; a remounting.
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- noun The act of
reascending ; a second or subsequentascension .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reascension of the Democrats over the Republicans won't do much to change the status quo either, as Speaker Pelosi's constituents are starting to figure out.
Archive 2008-08-01 sfmike 2008
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The reascension of the Democrats over the Republicans won't do much to change the status quo either, as Speaker Pelosi's constituents are starting to figure out.
Totenreich 1: The War Machine sfmike 2008
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No hope — no possibility of a physical reascension, this time.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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Raphael, at the request of Adam, relates how and wherefore this World was first created: that God, after the expelling of Satan and his Angels out of Heaven, declared his pleasure to create another World, and other creatures to dwell therein; sends his Son with glory, and attendance of Angels, to perform the work of creation in six days: the Angels celebrate with hymns the performance thereof, and his reascension into Heaven.
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The descent to earth of the celestial choir is rendered by lower and lower notes, the progressive disappearance of which represents the reascension to the ethereal regions.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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But I am one, Antony, who look forward with steadfast hope and belief to a reaction from our present vulgarity, and to a reascension of
The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Stephen Coleridge 1895
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It was customary with the ancients to speak of the setting of a constellation as its death, its reascension in the horizon being its return to life. 14 The black abysm under the earth was the realm of the dead.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Souls pass into terrestrial frames; process; reascension, 518-m.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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No hope -- no possibility of a physical reascension, this time.
Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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It was the nature of McChrystal's blunder that made the reascension of
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