heaven-gazern.
/ˈhɛvnˌɡeɪzə/, U.S. /ˈhɛv(ə)nˌɡeɪzər/ 1. A person who gazes at or studies the sky; = stargazer n. 1, astronomer. Also (in quot. 1851): = quadrant n.1 7.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > astronomy > [noun] > star-gazing > person
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stargazer1560
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xlvii. C The heauengasers & the beholders of starres.
?1585 W. Perkins Resol. to Countrey-man in Foure Great Lyers sig. F2 Many yeares after there were both great coniunctions & straunge Eclipses which tooke their effectes presently, not one, or two, or three yeares after (as our heauengazers beare thee in hande).
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxiv. 571 Thou poor, proud heaven-gazer and sun's pilot! yesterday I wrecked thee, and to-day the compasses would feign have wrecked me.
1985 Associated Press (Nexis) 22 June There are a billion or so others [sc. comets] circling the sun, and every year, heaven gazers spot a few new ones.
2004 D. H. Clark & M. D. H. Clark Measuring Cosmos Prol. 7 Thus the history of the universe is laid out for Earthbound heaven gazers to contemplate.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Trachinoidei > family Uranoscopidae (star-gazers) > member of > uranoscopus scaber (star-gazer)
uranoscopus1571
uranoscope1605
heaven-gazer1611
stargazer1661
sea-priest1672
skygazer1852
sea-parson1898
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tapecon, the Heauen-gazer; a scalelesse sea-fish..hauing..a great head, on whose top his eyes (wherewith he lookes directly vpward) are placed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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