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Show AS focalled from their continual trouble. fome motion, caufing an intolerable itch ing Quingy To ASCE'ND. w. n. [afcends, Lat. 1. To move upwards ; to mount; to rife Then to the heav'n of heav'ns fhall he afeend With victory, triumphing through the ai Over his foes and thine Milton 2. To proceed from one degree of goo to another united to God, and is one with him Watts's Improvement of the Mind in a right {phere. Obligue ajeenfion 1 an arch of the equator intercepied between the firft point of Aries, and tha point of the equator which rifes togethe with a ftar in an oblique fphere The day on whic Asce'nsion-pay the afcenfion of our Saviour is comme 70 Asce'~Np. w. 2. Toclimb up any thing vallies afcend the mountains Delaney's Revelation examined. influence 2. Height elevation The temple, an Temple Some ftar, I find Has giv'n thee an afcendant o'er my mind Chrift outdoes Mofes overpower before he difplaces him and fhews an afcendant fpirit above him 2. I an aftrological fenfe rizon South above the ho Let him ftudy the conftellation of Pegafus, whic is about that time afcendant. Brown's Vulg. Err Asce'NpENcY fluence; power #. /i [from afiend.] In Cuftom has fome afiendency over underftanding and what at one time feemed decent, appears difagreeable afterwards Watts Asce'Ns1oN. . /. [afcenfio, Lat. 1. The a& of afcending or rifing; frequently applied to the vifible elevatio of our Saviour to heaven Then rifing from his grave Spoil''d principalities, and pow'rs, triumph' In open thew; and, with afeenfion bright Captivity led captive through the air. Parad. Lop 2. The thing rifing, or mounting Man err in the theory of inebriation, conceiving the brain doth only fuffer from vaporous afcenfions from the ftomach Brown's Vulg. Err Asce'ns1ow, in aftronomy, is either righ or obligue. Right afienfimn of the fun or a ftar, is that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning o Bacon [fI'On"l c‘éay_@;, 3 blid'éer,‘ parts, from an extravafation an collec tion _of water broke out of its Prope veflels This cafe, when certain and i veterate, is univerfally allowed to admi of no cure but by means of the Mang operation of tapping Quing There are tw kind of dropf the anafir called alfo. leucophlegmacy, when the extravafyr Acceflible from earth, one entrance high 3. An eminence Milton or high place No land like Italy erets the figh By fuch a vaft afcent, or fwells to fuch a height Addifon A wide flat cannot be pleafant in the Elyfia fields unlefs it be diverfified with deprefied valley and fwelling afcents Bentley 70 ASCERTA'IN. w. a. [acertener, Fr. 1. To make certain ; to fix; to eftablifh The divine law both afcertaineth the truth, an fupplieth unto us the want of other laws. Hooker Money difters from uncoined filver in this, tha 2 the quantity of filver in each piece is afiertaine by the ftamp Locke T mak confident doubt : often with of Right judgment of myfelf t ma tak giv awa me th other certainty; that is, afoertain me that I am i the number of God's children Hammond's Pracical Catechifm This makes us a& with a repofe of mind an wonderful tranquillity, becaufe it afeertains us o the goodnefs of our work Dryden's Dufrcfnoy AscerTA'INER. 7. /. [from afcertain. The perfon that proves or eftablifhes ASCERTAINMENT. 2. /. [from afcertain. A fettled rule; an eftablithed ftandard For want of afcertainment, how far a writer ma exprefs his® good wifhes for his country, innocen intentions may be charged with crimes Savift to Lord Middleton Asce'Trck. adj. [4owiines. Employe wholly in exercifes of devotion and mortification None lived fuch long lives as monks and her mits, fequeftered from plenty to a conftant afzeric courfe of the fevereft abftinence and devotion South Ascr'rick. #./. He that retires to devotion and mortification ; a hermit ILam far from commending thofe afceticks, that out of a pretence of keeping themfelves unfpotte from the world, take up their quarters in defarts Norris pical, either anafarcous or aftitical Wifem, Sur AsciTi'T10vUs. adj. [afcititius, Lat] Supplemental ; additional; not inherent not original Homer has been reckoned an afcititions name Confpicuous far; winding with one afcen 4. One of the degrees of kindred reckone ASCE'NDANT. adj 1. Superiour ; predominant ing of afcen It was a roc When they have got an afeendant over them they fhould ufe it with moderation, and not mak themfelves fcarecrows Locke The moft nefarious kind of baftards, are inceftuous baftards, which are begotten between afcendants and defcendants in infinitum ; and betwee collaterals, as far as the divine prohibition Ayliffe's Parergon the feveral degree Dryd upwards 71/ D A particular {pecies of dropfy ; a'fwe'}} ing of the lower belly and dependiy whereby men did climb up to the fame, as if i had been a feala celi, beall poetical and fabulous {ciences that were there in their higheft afcendant By the afcendant he had in his underftanding and the dexterity of his nature, he could perfuad him very much Clarendon matter fwims in the cells of the membran Asce'NT. 7. [ [afcenfus, Lat. 44; pofa; and the gfcites, when the water poffeffes t 1. Rife; ‘the act of rifihg.; the. act o cavity of the abdomen Sharp's Surgan mounting Ascr'rieadt. %aaj. [from afiites.) Be To him with {wift afcent he up return'd A ci'trek longing to an afites Into his blifsful boforn reaffum' dropfical ; hydropical In glory, as of old Milton When it is part of another tumour, it is hyds 2. The way by which one afcends He was initiated, in order to gain inftrution i 3: Superiority; influence Asc1'TEs The cold augments when the days begin to increafe, though the fun be then afcenfive, and returning from the winter tropiclz Brown's Vulgar Errours they defcend th ASCE'NDABLE. adj. [from afcend.] Tha may be afcended Di4 Asce'NDANT. 7 /. [from afeend. 1. The part of the ecliptick at any.particular time above the horizon, which i fuppofed by aftrologers to have grea to them Asce'Nsive. adj. [from afcend.] In a ftat of afcent : not in ufe Tho inhabitants of the torrid zone, b they have the fun twice year Vert?g between the right and oblique afcenfio of the fame point to the furface of th fphere Chambers Brogme's Notes on the Ody/fey [f people who, at certain times o the fsa have no fhadow at n0on; fuch gpe fi; Asce'nstonaL Difference, is_the differenc ‘The only inceft was in the afeending, not colla The ASCIL n. f. It has 0 fingular without, and ouwd, a fhadow morated, commonly called Holy Thurfday ; the Thur{day but one before Whit funtide 3. To ftand higher in genealogy teral branch j as when parents and children married, this was accounted inceft He that preaches to "min, fimm what is in man; and that fkill can fearce tained by an afeetick in his folitudes Aries, which rifes with the fun or fta By thefe fteps we fhall aftend to more juft idea of the glory of Jefus Chrift, who is intimatel AS A 5 from fome accident of his life Pepe Ascr1I'BABLE. adj. [from aferibe] TTha which may be afcribed The greater part have been fotward to rejectit upon a miftaken perfuafion, that thofe phenomena are the effects of nature's abhorrencyof vacuum, ‘which feen to be more fitly aferibadle t the weight and fpring of the air 7o ASCRI'BE Boyl . a. [afiribo, Lat 1. To attribute to as a caufe Th caufe of his banifhmen is unknown, be caufe he was unwilling to provoke the emperor, b afcribing it to any other reafon than what was pretended Dryde T this we may juftly aferibe thofe jealoufi and encroachments, which render mankind uneal to one another Rogers 2. To attribute as a quality to perfons,o accident to fubftance Thefe perfections muft be fomew}ier.e,-afld.flhfle" fore may much better beaferibed to Gody in who we fuppofe all other perfections to meet, than Tillofor any thing elfe Ascri'pT10N. 7. [o [aferiptio, Lat.] gl; L a&t of afcribing Ascrr'PTITIOUS. adj. [aftriptitius, Laf.] Di That which is aferibed Asu. n. Lat A tree [ fraxinus, Lat. ®1¢, Saxon This tree hath pennated leaves, which endin The male flowers, which grow ata l:e odd lobe mote diftance from the fruit, Shave no petali;c " confif of many ftamina Th ovary becom ! feed veflel, containing one feed at:the b}%}'[ thaped like a bird'sjtongue With which of old he charm'd the favage 5 And call'd the mountain afbes to the plain 2. The wood of the afh Let me twin 2 "nfl Mine arms about that body, where 3Ea‘b My grained a/b an hundred times hath bro s @- i a(d sar' d the moon wit And fear prlminter ;z:k Asua. 'MED. adj. [from fbame.] Taucfi, s o befor with fhame ; gener:vrlly'wmh o b |