heaven-directedadj.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xxii. 475 Yet Our Heavendirected Reformation has perfectly refined us and cleansed us from them all.

1697 D. Baker Poems Several Occasions 86 For as a Sling and Heav'n-directed Stone Laid flat the Gathite Champion.

1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 14 O sacred Weapon!..To all but Heav'n-directed hands deny'd.

1781 J. Logan Poems 115 Simeon..Came Heaven-directed at the hour When Mary held her son.

1823 E. Irving Orac. God 152 The force of heaven-directed will.

1881 W. D. Gallagher Miami Woods 103 Then, as if heaven-directed, We met where that cabin once stood.

1902 T. L. Cuyler Recoll. Long Life xv. 258 Dr. Francis E. Clark, its heaven directed founder, had seen..my account of the good work wrought by the Young People's Association.

1968 19th-cent. Fiction 23 287 The final heaven-directed reunion with Rochester circumvents the whole dilemma.

1992 E. Pearce Election Rides iv. 41 He cannot quite do the heaven-directed piety of his leader, but he managed a decent turn of virtue.

1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 14 Who taught that heav'n-directed Spire to rise?

1794 T. Dwight Greenfield Hill iii. 75 Each grateful household..sent with heaven-directed eyes, United incense to the skies.

1839 Times 26 Dec. 2/5 The village church, with its heaven-directed spire, has arisen.

1850 L. A. Appleton Misc. Poems 13 Could shrieks of fear, and heaven directed eyes Avert the moment of the sacrifice?

1905 H. A. Evans Highways & Byways Oxf. & Cotswolds ii. 42 Behind it towers the heaven-directed column of Victory with its colossal figure of the great duke attired in the garb of antique Rome.

1957 B. Stambler Dante's Other World xii. 254 The griffon is earthbound, though with strength, nobility, and force, through its lion's body; as it is heaven-directed through its eagle's head and wings.

2005 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 1 Sept. a7 It will feature a heaven-directed strobe light that will be seen from Santa Fe.