单词 | heaven-flying |
释义 | > as lemmasheaven-flying c. Instrumental and locative, as in heaven-bred, heaven-flying, heaven-kenning, heaven-protected, heaven-taught, etc., adjectives. See also heaven-born adj. and n.In quot. OE the adjective is used as a noun. ΚΠ eOE Junius Psalter ciii. 12 Super ea volucres cæli habitabunt de medio petrarum dabunt voces suas : ofer ða heofonfleogende fuglas eardiað of midle stana sellað stefna his. OE Hymns (Durh. B.iii.32) lxxxix. 1 in I. Milfull Hymns of Anglo-Saxon Church (1996) 338 Sublimis residens virgo Maria supra celigenas aetheris omnes : healic sittende mæden ofer heofancennede roderes ealle. ?1594 M. Drayton Peirs Gaueston sig. K3 The heauen-dyed flowers in this happy clyme. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 52 Words of the Heau'n-prompted stile. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. ii. 71 Much is the force of heauen-bred Poesie. View more context for this quotation 1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iii. iii. sig. P4v The Heaven-built Pillers of his Soul. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 535 All yet left of that revolted Rout Heav'n-fall'n, in station stood. View more context for this quotation 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. ix. 803 The Fall of Heav'n-protected Troy [Gk. Ἰλίου αἰπεινῆς, lit. ‘lofty Troy’]. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 5 Reason, that Heav'n-lighted Lamp in Man. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Tragedies 47 Heav'n-sprung [Gk. θέορτον, lit ‘sprung from the gods’], or mortal? If permitted, say. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 239 Here Poesy might wake her heaven taught lyre. 1810 L. Aikin Epist. Women 31 The heaven-taught bards..All hail! 1849 J. C. Hare Serm. Preacht Herstmonceux Church II. 227 In the free heaven-lit atmosphere of the Gospel. 1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 256 The Heaven-controlled Seer. a1870 J. Kershaw Serm. (1995) xvi. 257 Heaven-born souls are never satisfied, never happy, never comfortable, but as they seek and enjoy their dear Redeemer, their All in all. 1913 J. C. Kimball Ethical Aspects Evol. i. 19 Something which could not originate in any evolutionized love of life, or in anything but a Heaven-implanted altruism. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey (new ed.) iv. 45 Upon first sight of this palace of the heaven-nurtured king the visitors paused in amaze. 2001 N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 36 Hanging so still above the damp landscape as if on wires heaven-rooted, it is paradigm of hunt and harry. < as lemmas |
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