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▪ I. heavenly, a. (n.)|ˈhɛv(ə)nlɪ|
Forms: see heaven n.: in 1–4 -líc, 2–4 -lich, -lik, 4–5 -li, 4– -ly (also 3 heueliche, 5 hefly).
[OE. heofonlíc: see heaven and -ly1.]
1. a. Of, in, or belonging to heaven, as the abode of God; divine, celestial.
971Blickl. Hom. 11 Dæl-nimende þæs heofonlican rices. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke ii. 13 Mycelnes heofonlices werydes. c1175Lamb. Hom. 113 We ne maȝen habben þene heouen⁓lichen eþel. c1275Passion our Lord 638 in O.E. Misc. 55 Ye beon byweued of heueliche myhte. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Paulus 859 Hevinlyk Ioy and lestand bliss. 1382Wyclif Matt. vi. 14 Ȝoure heuenly fadir shal forȝeue to ȝou ȝoure trespassis. c1450Golagros & Gaw. 265 Hevinly god!..how happynis this thing? 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 1 Takyng on vs the iourney to the heuenly Jerusalem. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. 3 A showr of heauenly bread. 1713Gay Epist. iii, In her notes the heavenly choir descends. 1840De Quincey Style ii. Wks. 1861 X. 247 Under a heavenly afflatus.
b. Belonging to the heaven of the heathen gods.
1483Cath. Angl. 185/1 Heuenly, celestis. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. v. 84 If two gods should play some heauenly match, And on the wager lay two earthly women. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. (1837) I. 645 The heavenly Venus.
2. Of or belonging to the natural heaven or sky; now chiefly in the phrase heavenly bodies, i.e. the stars, planets, comets, etc. Formerly also, Coming from the clouds or atmosphere, as ‘heavenly dew’.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 271 Þe ouer party þerof hatte Celica, þat is, heuenliche and hiȝe, for hiȝe mountaignes þat beeþ þerynne. 1390Gower Conf. I. 34 Lo, first the hevenly figures. The sonne and mone eclipsen both. c1450Holland Howlet 431 The colour of asure, ane hevinliche hewe. 1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 23 The rosis..powderit brycht with hevinly beriall droppis. 1535Coverdale Jer. viii. 2 The Sonne, the Moone and all the heauenly hooste. 1607–12Bacon Ess., Empire (Arb.) 308/1 Princes are like the heavenly bodyes, which cause good, or evill tymes, and which have much veneration, but noe rest. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iii. 145, 372 Astronomical miles, or 25 Heavenly degrees. 1874Estes Half-hour Recreat. Ser. i. 96 Of the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies.
3. Having relation to heaven and divine things; divine, sacred, holy, blessed.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Machor 1101 Lang sermonyng Of haly lyf & hewinlik thing. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 31 She was so enflawmyd with hevenely hete. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 356 A breaking..Of heauenly oaths, vow'd with integritie. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vii. §13 Instructing them by his heavenly preaching. 1814Southey Roderick xxv. 312 Never man enjoyed a heavenlier peace. 1879R. K. Douglas Confucianism iii. 72 The Sage..pursues the heavenly way without the slightest deflection.
4. a. Having the excellence, beauty, or delight that belongs to heaven; of more than earthly or human excellence; divine. Of music: Such as that of the heavenly choirs.
1460–70Bk. Quintessence 22 Ȝe schulen haue an heuenly medicyn to cure perfiȝtly þis sijknesse. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1193 Quhar byrdis blythly sang..in hewynly armony. 1559Morwyng Evonym. 94 Quintessence they name to be the chief and the heavenliest power or vertue in any plant, metall, or beast. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 227 Who sees the heauenly Rosaline That..Bowes not his vassall head? 1712Steele Spect. No. 443 ⁋1 A graceful Person, an exalted Mien, and Heavenly Voice. 1779F. Burney Diary 26 May, Our journey was delightfully pleasant, the day being heavenly. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxv. 188 The gush of the direct sunlight could add nothing to this heavenly beauty.
b. colloq. Excellent, particularly enjoyable.
1874L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) ix. 88 We had a most heavenly bathe. 1931R. Lehmann Let. to Sister 11 The heavenly mixing of paints and distempers. 1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie viii. 127 Sophia felt at once extremely dowdy. ‘You are lucky,’ she said, ‘the way you always have such heavenly things.’
5. absol. in pl. the heavenlies: a literal rendering of Gr. (ἐν) τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις (Eph. i. 3, iii. 10), variously translated ‘(in) heavenly places’ or ‘things’, in Rhemish Vers. ‘in the celestials’.
1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile Poems I. 102 Thy speech is of the Heavenlies. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxi. 7 In him we are made to sit together in the heavenlies. 1875E. White Life in Christ ii. xii. 138 Against spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies, or aerial regions.
6. Comb., as heavenly-seeming, heavenly-dewed adjs.
1580Sidney Arcadia ii. vii. 44 Poems 1873 II. 52 The second sweetly-fenced ward, Her heavenly-dewed tongue to gard. 1785Burns Vision ii. 2, I view'd the heavenly-seeming Fair.
7. heavenly fruit, the genus Diospyros, the Fruit of Jove (Loudon Encycl. Plants, 1855, 870).
▪ II. ˈheavenly, adv.
In 1 -líce, 2–5 -liche.
[OE. heofonlíce: see heaven and -ly2.]
1. a. From or by heaven. b. In a heavenly manner or degree; divinely; qualifying an adj.
c1000ælfric Gram. xxxviii. (Z.) 239 Cælitus, heofonlice. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 343 Joon lovede Crist more heuenliche. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cxxii. (1869) 121 Þat I be a brid, hye raueshed, heuenlich contemplatyf. 1508Dunbar Tua mariit Wemen 11 Vnder ane holyn hewinlie grein hewit. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. Introd. iv, O Goddesse heavenly bright! 1604Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 135 Oh she was heauenly true. 1717Pope Eloisa 297 Oh virtue heav'nly fair.
c. Usually hyphened to adjs. used attrib.
1580Sidney Arcadia iii. ii. 18 Poems 1873 II. 115 Captiuing snares Which heau'nly-purest gifts defile. c1630Milton On Time 19 Our heavenly-guided soul. 1717Pope Eloisa 2 Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxxxvii, Azure orbits heavenly-wise. 1868Ld. Houghton Select. fr. Wks. 213 To seem So heavenly-happy in my dream.
2. To the extent of heaven, as in heavenly wide, as far apart as the two poles, differing toto cælo.
1674Hickman Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2) 107 But indeed his Opinion and the Remonstrants Opinion, seem to be heavenly wide. |