| 单词 | heavenly fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheavenly fire (a) heaven's fire (also heaven fire, heavenly fire, fire of heaven): lightning. Cf. sense A. 7d, levin-fire n. at levin n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > St. Elmo's fire heaven's fireOE St. Elmo's fire1561 Hermes' fire1611 corposant1650 furole1656 Castor1708 composant1751 storm-light1843 storm-firea1847 dead-fire1854 witch-fire1892 OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 421) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 262 Swylce eac be ðam hean muntum and dunum..heo beoð genehhe mid heofenfyre [c1175 Bodl. 343 heofenlice fure] geþreade and geþræste and mid ligum geslægene. a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) l. 76 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 165 Sunne & mone & houen fur boð þestre aȝein his lihte. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1221 Doun cam the reyn..With heuenys fer. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island v. iii. 47 So shall my flagging Muse to heav'n aspire..And warm her pineons at that heav'nly fire. 1839 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Feb. 210 Heaven's fire, which, through the scudding rack, The signal of the coming thunder's crack, Lights up the dark abyss. 1920 J. Conrad Rescue (1923) ii. 80 All this [sc. the shoreline]..appearing unscathed and motionless under hooked darts of flame, like some legendary country of immortals, withstanding the wrath and fire of Heaven. 2004 P. Quarrington Storm Chasers (2005) 21 The strike was nowhere near the boat, or else they'd all be dead. But Caldwell knew he'd been hit. He felt heaven's fire course through his body. < as lemmas |
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