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A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.

ody or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.] Shak.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

ant warfare against its enemies, and is thus distinguished from the church triumphant, in heaven.

questions, where great names militate against each other. Burke. The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. Gibbon.

s, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven." Milton.

The coin, or other production, made in a mint. Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. Sterling.

ls of a minute; very often and regularly. J. Philips. Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven. Hammond.

e seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar. She is mirour of all courtesy. Chaucer. O goddess, heavenly bright, Mirror of grace and majesty divine. Spenser.

n; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. He who reigns Monarch in heaven, ... upheld by old repute. Milton.

With a verb or participle. Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement. Milton.

uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jer. li. 53. The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. Cowley.

usceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet.

Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent. All the heavenly choir stood mute, And silence was in heaven. Milton.

eyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. Heaven's numerous hierarchy span The mystic gulf from God to man. Emerson. God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural. Hooker.

That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope. The Nativity, the birth or birthday of Christ; Christmas day. -- To cast, or calculate, one's nativity (Astrol.), to find out and represent the position of the heavenly bodies…

r congratulation. Coleridge. There is none righteous, no, not one. Rom. iii. 10. No! Nay, Heaven forbid. Coleridge.