transitive. Of a god: to take (a soul, spirit, etc.) to himself in death. Cf. sense 10.

esp. To receive up into heaven. (The earliest use in English; cf. assumption, n. 1a 1b). archaic or Obsolete.

esp. To receive up into heaven; = assume, v. 1b.

transitive. To place in or raise to heaven, literal and figurative; to entrance.