OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21736

firmament

/ˈfɜːməm(ə)nt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
firmamento
The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.
And far above the gentle moon sails on / Through the blue firmament. It is a scene / That gives that spot of earth the air of Heav'n!
Some of his [Confucius's] philosophical principles are, [...] that the cause or principle of things must have had a co-existence with the things themselves; [...] and that the cent…
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