firmament
fir·ma·ment (fʉr′mə mənt)
noun
the sky, viewed poetically as a solid arch or vault
Etymology: ME < OFr < LL(Ec) firmamentum < L, a strengthening, support < firmare: see firm
Preposition: of
- heaven: God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth.
- star: From the earth it was possible to observe the firmament of fixed stars beyond the transparent spheres.
- world: Oh, what a nebulous piece of trash on the firmament of the world.
Converse of object
- make: Recitative ( " And God made the firmament " ) Bass trombone and contrabassoon act as bass to wind band.
- have: It begins by telling us that we had night and day before we even had a firmament.
- create: Then God created light, and day and night before he had created a firmament or a sun.
- spangle: The spangled firmament is but the outside and pavement of that house where Christ and the saints meet.
- grace: Its not often that true genius graces this firmament that we call Earth.
Adjective modifier
- starry: This golden dematerialized light replaces the starry firmament or the picturesque landscape.
- political: Part of the explanation is that we have not fully understood how the political firmament has been shifting underneath our feet.
- more: There is no more firmament, eight pages of dense and complex directions, is the result of Artaud's work.
- blue: Synopsis Silence is like a huge expanse of blue black firmament where on a master artist creates most beautiful patterns.
- literary: But Harry Potter is only one bright star in a glittering literary firmament.
- bright: He was, in scholarly terms, perhaps the brightest star in even that bright firmament of Univ Fellows.
Noun used with modifier
- jazz: He is one of the very major and historically innovative stars in the jazz firmament still active today.
- post-britpop: After all, the dissolute Glimmer Twins of the post-Britpop firmament made no secret of their sources on that eponymous first album.
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!öWho pulls me down?ö See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.
The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork.One day telleth another: and one night certifieth another. There is neither speech nor language: but their voices are heard among them. Their sound isgone out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the world.
The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th'unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display; And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.
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