heaven

The sky, specifically:

All that is vnder the heauen.

The ordinaunce...made such a great noyse and thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen.

The sky, specifically:

Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.

The qualitie of mercie is not ſtraind, it droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen vpon the place beneath

The sky, specifically:

Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.

The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:

And there was a battel in heauen. Michael & his Angels foght againſt the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde anie more in heauen.

Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc.

The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:

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.

To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.

He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse.

To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.

They [Byron's Tales]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray.

To beautify, to make into a paradise.

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

Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc.

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

Providence, the will of God or the gods, when considered as a personal entity or specific aspect of the divine; Fate

...but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs,

Heaven commands thine arm To lift the sure-destroying sword!

Other extended senses of heaven as a specific place similar to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed departed

The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

The sky, particularly its distant aspect as the abode of the sun, moon, and stars

Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.

The Heauens...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.

The supreme God or Nature which controls the universe.

What Heaven has conferred is called the Nature...

...‘Heaven’ as we use it throughout the book is only a convenient but inaccurate translation of the Chinese character tian. Heaven in Chinese religions as well as in the Confucian tradition has multidimensional implications... In its metaphysical and physical connotation, Heaven... refers to... Nature. Applied in the spiritual realm, it signifies an anthropomorphic Lord or a Supreme Being who presides in Heaven, and rules over or governs directly the spiritual and material worlds.