heaven
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Definition
noun (English)
1. The sky, specifically:Examples: "All that is vnder the heauen."; "The ordinaunce...made such a great noyse and thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen."; "In ascending orderly vpwardes...The first is the Spheare of the Moone...The seuenth the Spheare of Saturne, The eight the Spheare of the fixed Starres, commonly called the firmament. The ninth is called the second moueable or Christall heauen, The tenth is called the first moueable, and the eleuenth is called the Emperiall heauen, where God and his Angels are said to dwell."countabledatedplural-normallypoeticuncountable
2. The sky, specifically:Examples: "Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues."; "The qualitie of mercie is not ſtraind, it droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen vpon the place beneath"; "Fellow-believers...fed the birds of heaven with the carcases of pious and reverend Church-men."countableobsoleteuncountable
3. The sky, specifically:Examples: "Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse."countableobsoleteuncountable
4. (religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:Examples: "And there was a battel in heauen. Michael & his Angels foght againſt the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde anie more in heauen."; "Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc."; "Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."capitalizedcountableuncountableusually
5. (religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:Examples: "With Ioue in heauen, or some where else."; "As he [Muhammad] was returning, in the fourth Heaven, Moses advised him to goe back to God."; "Like the Buddhas, they [the Jains] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells."broadlycapitalizedcountableoftenuncountable
6. (religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:Examples: "[…]he cannot thriue, Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath Of greatest Iustice."; "After that thou shalt haue knowen that the heauens doe rule."; "[…]The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven."broadlycapitalizedcountableuncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.Examples: "He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse."obsolete
2. (obsolete) To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.Examples: "They [Byron's Tales]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray."obsolete
3. (obsolete) To beautify, to make into a paradise.obsolete
name (English)
1. (religion) The abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location; the abode of the blessed departed who reside in the presence of God or the godsExamples: "Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc."; "Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."; "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd."
2. (religion) Providence, the will of God or the gods, when considered as a personal entity or specific aspect of the divine; FateExamples: "...but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs,"; "Heaven commands thine arm To lift the sure-destroying sword!"; "...executing the just judgment of offended Heaven upon cattle-houghers, traitors, and assassins."
3. (uncommon) Other extended senses of heaven as a specific place similar to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed departedExamples: "The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."uncommon
4. (obsolete) The sky, particularly its distant aspect as the abode of the sun, moon, and starsExamples: "Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues."; "The Heauens...are carried in 24 houres from East to West."obsolete
5. (Chinese mythology, semantic translation of 天 (tiān)) The supreme God or Nature which controls the universe.Examples: "What Heaven has conferred is called the Nature..."; "...‘Heaven’ as we use it throughout the book is only a convenient but inaccurate translation of the Chinese character tian. Heaven in Chinese religions as well as in the Confucian tradition has multidimensional implications... In its metaphysical and physical connotation, Heaven... refers to... Nature. Applied in the spiritual realm, it signifies an anthropomorphic Lord or a Supreme Being who presides in Heaven, and rules over or governs directly the spiritual and material worlds."; "It was not just the sky, but a god with wills and intentions, seen as sovereign of all... In fact, "Tian" was another reverent term to address the supreme god: "Heaven, for the help of the inferior people, made for them rulers, and made for them instructors" ("Great Declaration I" in the Book of History)..."Synonyms: TianChinese
6. (uncommon) A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Evanuncommon
Definition source: Wiktionary