单词 | birds of heaven |
释义 | > as lemmasbirds of heaven a. The part of the atmosphere above and closest to the earth's surface, within which humans observe terrestrial weather systems, flight, and other activity in the sky local to earth. Chiefly with allusion to biblical use, esp. in set phrases, as birds of heaven, clouds of heaven, dew of heaven, rain of heaven, winds of heaven. Also occasionally in plural. Chiefly poetic in later use.With rain or dew, so called because falling (or perceived to fall) from the clouds. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > upper atmosphere heavenOE welkinc1369 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxvii. 28 Sylle þe God of heofones deawe [L. de rore coeli] & of eorðan fæstnysse [read fætnysse] & micelnysse hwætes & wines. OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 32 Þonne hit [sc. senepes sæd] asawen bið hit astihþ,..& hæfð swa mycele bogas þæt heofenes fugelas [L. aves caeli] eardian magon under his sceade. OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxxvii. 26 And [halig drihten] awehte þa windas of heofenum, Auster ærest and þa Affricum. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxv. 11 The bestis of the erthe..the foulis of heuene [L. volucres caeli]. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. vii. 2 Foure wyndis of heuen [L. quatuor venti caeli] fouȝten in the mydil see. c1475 Proverbs (Rawl. D.328) in Mod. Philol. (1940) 38 120 (MED) Yf heua [n] falle meny lerkys schall be take. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 49v The water that commeth from heauen, in rayne. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 18 The disposition of the Heauens is a great matter, all Countreys haue not the weather and ayre alike. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 76 The mountaine of Pines..fretten with the gusts of heauen. 1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 43 Fellow-believers..fed the birds of heaven with the carcases of pious and reverend Church-men. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 38 The Birds of Heav'n shall vindicate their Grain. 1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad x. 453 Arzira's rock, where never rain Yet fell from heaven. a1820 J. R. Drake Culprit Fay (1853) 38 When the vesper dew of heaven descends, Soft music breathes in many a melting tone. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 73 Tears, and the careless rain of heaven, mixt Upon their faces. 1870 Ld. Tennyson Window 146 Be merry in heaven, O larks, and far away. 1898 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 188 Honours, like the gentle rain from heaven, fell upon him unstrained. 1909 B. Carman Rough Rider & Other Poems 73 From the twelve winds of heaven their caravans Drew into Sikri as Akbar summoned them. 2005 Orillia (Ont.) Packet & Times (Nexis) 4 Dec. a4 Salata is assisted by a host of turtle doves and the little birds of heaven in the form of cheerful volunteers. < as lemmas |
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