| 单词 | heavenly body |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheavenly body heavenly body n. (originally) the sun, moon, or a planet (planet n. 1a); (later also) any star, comet, asteroid, or other celestial object; usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] candle937 lightOE starsc1225 ballc1300 bodya1398 celestinec1430 heavenly bodya1475 luminair1477 luminary1489 streamer1513 host or hosts of heaven1535 globe1555 orb1565 sphere1598 planet1640 superstar1910 a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 3123 (MED) Off hevenly bodyes cyrculer, He [sc. God] stant no thyng in ther daunger. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 87 His [sc. God's] ȝift into oure seruice of heuenli bodies, as ben planetis and sterris wiþ her large speeris. 1539 R. Taverner Garden of Wysdom sig. B.v He [sc. Socrates] disputed..neuer of the planetes and heuenly bodyes, as the other philosophers were accustomed. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 55 Princes are like the heavenly bodies, which cause good, or evill times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. 1704 J. Dennis Grounds of Crit. in Poetry iv. 45 The Heavens and Heavenly Bodies, the Sun, the Moon, the Stars. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlv. 541 For ascertaining..the position of any of the heavenly bodies, it is usual to determine its meridian altitude by quadrants, and the time of its passing the meridian by transit instruments. 1938 P. V. H. Weems Air Navigation (ed. 2) xvi. 263 The geographical position of a heavenly body is the point on the earth's surface that has the body in its zenith; in other words the substellar, subsolar, or sublunar point. 1994 Homiletic & Pastoral Rev. June 23/1 The Ptolemaic Theory was constructed to explain the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies around the earth. < as lemmas |
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