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pandemonium | heaven |
(archaic) A place where all demons live; Hell.
* 1674 — , Book I
Chaos; tumultuous or lawless violence.
* 2004 , Boston Globe , October 22
An outburst; loud, riotous uproar, especially of a crowd.
The sky, specifically :
# (dated, now usually plural) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
#* 1535 , (Coverdale Bible), (Ecclesiastes) III 1:
#* 1585 , Thomas Washington translating Nicholas de Nicolay, The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay , I vi 4:
#* 1594 , Thomas Blundeville, M. Blundeuile his Exercises , I iii 136:
#* (William Shakespeare), (The Comedie of Errors) , I i 66:
#*1625 , Nathanæl Carpenter, Geography delineated forth in two bookes , I iv 77:
#* 1656 , Thomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy , II v 74:
#* 1930 March, Nature , 179 2:
#* 1981 , E.R. Harrison, Cosmology , XII 250:
#*2006 , Peter Carroll translating a maxim of the Southern Song dynasty in Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895–1937 :
# (obsolete) The near sky in which weather, flying animals, appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.
#* (w, Wycliffe's Bible), Job XXXV 11:
#* 1581 , George Pettie translating Stefano Guazzo, Ciuile Conuersation , I 26:
#* (William Shakespeare), (The comicall Historie of the Merchant of Venice) , IV i:
#* 1660 , George Mackenzie, Religio Stoici , II 44:
# (obsolete) A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
#* 1600 , Thomas Nashe, Summers Last Will :
(religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
# (Christianity, usually capitalized) The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
#* 1560 , (Geneva Bible), XII 7–8:
#* 1644 , (Samuel Rutherford), : The Law and the Prince , V 16:
#* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , I 263:
#* 1906 July 30, Washington Post , 12 4:
# (religion, by extension, often capitalized) The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
#* , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The House of Fame) , 164:
#* (w, Wycliffe's Bible), VII 18:
#* 1594 , (William Shakespeare), (Titus Andronicus) , IV iii 41:
#* 1649 , Alexander Ross translating the Sieur Du Ryer, The , Translated out of the Arabique into French... newly Englished , 406:
#* 1832 , Charles Coleman, The Mythology of the Hindus , XIII 220:
#* 1841 , Mountstuart Elphinstone, The History of India , I ii iv 169:
#* 2011 , Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China , 2:
# (by extension, usually capitalized) Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
#* , III iv:
#* 1611 , (King James Bible), iv 26:
#* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , I 212:
#* 1793 , Henry Boyd, Poems , II iv 270:
#* 1886 May 8, The Pall Mall Gazette , 1 1:
#* 1992 , W.S. Wilson translating E. Yoshikawa, Taiko , II 186:
#* 2011 , Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China , 3:
(religion) The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare (m)); specifically:
# (Christianity, Islam) The afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.
#* 1544 , Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande , C:
#* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (The tragedie of King Richard the second)'', I i 41 43:
#* 1611 , (King James Bible), IV 14:
# (religion, by extension, often capitalized) The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.
#* 2011 , Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China , 3:
# (by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
#* (William Langland), (Piers Plowman) , B x 300:
#* 1600 , (William Shakespeare), (A Midsommer Nights Dreame) , II i 243:
#* 1660 November 14, a speech in the House of Commons in W. Cobbett, Parl. Hist. (1808), IV 145:
#* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , I 254–255:
#* 1782 , F. Burney, Cecilia , I iii iv 51:
#* 1940 , , (Babes in Darkling Wood) , II iii 198:
# (by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
#* (Geoffrey Chaucer), (Troilus and Criseyde) , II l 826:
#* 1550 , J. Heywood, Dialogue Prov. Eng. Tongue, II vii:
#* 1809 October 26, (William Wordsworth), Friend , 163:
# (informal, with a modifier) Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
#* 1867 , J.W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion , XXVI 368:
#* 1879 February, J. H. Payne, Scribner's Monthly , 470 2:
#* 1908 October 5, Chicago Tribune , 3 1:
#* 1972 , M. Sanders, Flash :
#* 1986 February 3, Newsweek , 70:
#* 2003 August 1, Church Times , 28 3:
#* 2004 July 17, Western Mail (Cardiff) , 15:
(obsolete) To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
*1614 , Thomas Adams, The divells banket described in sixe sermons , II 81:
*:He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse.
(obsolete) To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.
*1924 April 13, Observer , 12 4:
(obsolete) To beautify, to make into a paradise.
1000 English basic words
As a noun pandemonium
is the imaginary capital of hell (often with a capital letter).As a proper noun heaven is
(religion) the abode of god or the gods, when considered as a specific location; the abode of the blessed departed who reside in the presence of god or the gods.pandemonium
English
Alternative forms
* pandaemonium *Noun
(en-noun)- And Trumpets sound throughout the Host proclaim
A solemn Councel forthwith to be held
At Pandæmonium , the high Capitol
Of Satan and his Peers.
- Whenever you have violent pandemonium , there's the overwhelming possibility for panic and tragedy.
Synonyms
* (tumultuous or lawless violence): chaos * (an outburst): outburst, uproarheaven
English
Noun
(wikipedia heaven) (en noun)- All that is vnder the heauen .
- The ordinaunce]]...made such a great noyse and [[thundering, thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen.
- In ascending orderly vpwardes]]...The first is the Spheare of the Moone...The seuenth the Spheare of Saturne, The eight the Spheare of the fixed Starres, commonly called the firmament. The ninth is called the second moueable or Christall heauen', The tenth is called the first moueable, and the eleuenth is called the [[empyreal, Emperiall ' heauen , where God and his Angels are said to dwell.
- What obscured light the heauens did grant.
- The Heauens ...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.
- Stars and constellations; some fixed for the Ornament of Heaven
- The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.
- In an infinite...universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.
- Above is Heaven , Below are Suzhou and Hangzhou
- The bestis]] of the erthe...the [[fowls, foulis of heuene
- Everie]]...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven , and the influence of the starres hath certaine [[virtues, vertues.
- The qualitie]] of mercie is not ,
it droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen
[[upon, vpon the place beneath
- Fellow-believers...fed the birds of heaven with the carcases of pious and reverend Church-men.
- Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.
- And there was a battel]] in heauen'. Michael & his Angels foght the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde [[any, anie more in ' heauen .
- Con?ider fir?t that the Ordinance ?ent from Heaven by the mini?tery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ?ome few ?uch, as Mo?es, Saul, David, [[etc.
- Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n .
- Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come.
- Venus...Doun]] [[from, fro the heven gan descende.
- Thei]] make sweete cakis to the [[queen, quen of heuene
[ Astarte ]
- With Ioue in heauen , or some where else.
- As he
[ Muhammad ] was returning, in the fourth Heaven , Moses advised him to goe back to God.
- Like the Buddhas, they
[ the Jains ] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells.
- The heaven of Siva is in the midst of the eternal snows and glaciers of Keilás, one of the highest and deepest groups of the stupendous summits of Hémaláya.
- To grasp the Chinese's notion of Heaven , we must look at the contexts in which tian'' is used... In the ''Book of Odes'' (''Shi jing'' ), which includes poems dated between the eleventh and seventh centuries BCE, ''tian is a place where the Heavenly Thearch resides.
- ...he cannot thriue]],
Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare
And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath
Of greatest [[justice, Iustice.
- After that thou shalt haue]] [[known, knowen that the heauens doe rule.
- ...The will
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven .
- Heaven commands thine arm
To lift the sure-destroying sword!
- ...executing the just judgment of offended Heaven upon cattle-houghers, traitors, and assassins.
- There's nothing we can do but pray to heaven for good luck.
- Cosmologists regarded Heaven as a force—composed of qi'' aspects—that kept the cosmos moving.
- Teache]] the people to gett heuen with [[fasting, fastynge.
- ...what I speake
My body shall make good vpon]] this earth,
Or my [[divine, diuine soule answer it in heauen .
- Wee]] [[have, haue a great high Priest, that is passed into the heauens .
- The belief in ascending to Heaven after death became widespread in the Han dynasty.
- If heuene be on þis]] erthe...It is in cloistere or in [[school, scole.
- Ile follow thee and make a heauen of hell.
- England, that was formerly the heaven , would be now the hell for women.
- The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n' of Hell, a Hell of ' Heav'n .
- Such a shop as that...would be quite a heaven upon earth to me.
- They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.
- It an heuene was hire]] voys to [[hear, here.
- Husbandes]] are in heauen ...whose [[wives, wiues scold not.
- Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven !
- Perhaps it has gone to the dog heaven , and is wagging somewhere in glory.
- His pet name for Easthampton is ‘Goose-heaven ’, and he harps upon the idea eternally.
- One gray beard who found the gates closed shinned up the fifteen foot fence...and dropped into the baseball heaven he was seeking.
- The Dave Clark 5 deserve a place in Rock & Roll Heaven right along there beside Question Mark & The Mysterians, the Standells, Count Five, the Troggs, and the Music Machine.
- The building was once a candy factory, which makes it, Frazier says, mouse heaven .
- Ricky bumps it into the garden, and tells me it is going to ‘the cooker heaven ’. ‘Where it will be this size,’ adds his wife, her hands making the size of a brick. She means that it is off to the squasher.
- Goronwy has gone to goldfish heaven where he is swimming in a beautiful clear blue ocean with all the other fishies.
Usage notes
Frequently capitalized as '(m)' in all senses when regarded as a proper name. When used as a synonym for the impersonal sky, the word has typically been plural ("(m)" or "(m)") since the 17th century, except in poetry.Synonyms
* (sky) firmament, sky; welkin (obsolete) * (paradise) paradise * (entrance to heaven) pearly gates * (blissful place or experience) delight, dream, paradiseAntonyms
* (paradise) hell * (blissful place or experience) horror, nightmareDerived terms
* as high as heaven * before heaven * by heaven * cat heaven, kitty heaven * cope of heaven * dog heaven, doggy heaven * eye of heaven * for heaven's sake * good heavens! * great heavens! * Heaven-abandoned * Heaven and earth * heaven-bound * heaven-bow * heaven-bridge * heaven-burster * heaven forbid, heaven forfend * heaven god * heaven-high * heavenise, heavenize * Heaven knows * heavenly * heaven of heaven, heaven of heavens * heaven on earth * heavens, Heavens above! * heaven-sent * Heavens to Betsy, Heavens to Murgatroid! * heaven-tree, heaven-plant * heavenwards * heaven-wide * heaven worshippers * hog heaven * in heaven's name * Kingdom of Heaven * made in heaven * Mandate of Heaven * manna from heaven * merciful heavens * move heaven and earth * pennies from heaven * seventh heaven * stink to high heaven * thank heaven * the heavens * the heavens open * though the heavens fall * under heaven * vault of heaven (der bottom)Verb
(en-verb)Oxford English Dictionary . "Heaven, v."- They ['s Tales ]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray.