Heavenly \Heav"en*ly\ (h[e^]v"'n*l[y^]), a. [AS. heofonic.] 1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.
As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. --1 Cor. xv. 48.
2. Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly. --Sir P. Sidney.
Heavenly \Heav"en*ly\, adv. 1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. ``She was heavenly true.'' --Shak.
2. By the influence or agency of heaven.
Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. --Milton.
In Lucca he gloried in 'church fronts charged with heavenly sculpture and inlaid with whole histories in marble', but in such a parlous state of decay that he felt obliged to record them.
Those born under one or another of the 12 different signs are presumed to have distinct personalities reflecting heavenly influences.
Astronomers believe they have discovered the first instance of an Einstein ring, a heavenly illusion in which radio waves are bent by a distant cosmic object.
There, in St Baaf's Cathedral, locked in bullet, earthquake and everything-proof glass is Jan and Hubert Van Eyck's 'Adoration of the Mystic Lamb', the most sublime evocation of heavenly paradise ever painted.
Their popular name is Venus Fishing Rod, and they arch over on to the soil like offshoots from some heavenly cast.
It opened for business in the colony in 1928. CTS is one of the 'four heavenly sisters' - along with China Resources, China Merchants and Bank of China - and the second of them to float a subsidiary on the Hong Kong market.
He wrote what he said was a translation of the plates, which were returned to the heavenly messenger who led Smith to them.
IT IS a heavenly week for gardening; June and July have been rolled into one; the season is crazily advanced and the evening light is showing everything to its best advantage.