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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) vii. 10 (8) Cum diuiderit excelsus gentes : ðonne todaeleð se hea ðiode.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds vii. 48 But the hiȝe [a1425 New Coll. Oxf. heeȝ God, L.V. hiȝ God; L. excelsus] dwellith not in maade thingis by hond.

1479 Earl Rivers tr. Cordyal (Caxton) ii. iii Our lorde hath thundred from heuen, and the moost hyghe hath vttred his voys.

1539 Bible (Great) Num. xxiv. f. lxiij^v/2 He hath sayd that heareth the wordes of God, and hath y^e knowledge of the most hye, and beholdeth the vysion of the almyghtie.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxiii. 11 How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? [1382 Wyclif in heiȝte; 1388 an heiȝe; 1535 Coverdale the most hyest] . View more context for this quotation

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 906 A despite don against the most High . View more context for this quotation

1755 Man No. 28. 6 Revelation represents the Most-High to us as the most beneficent fountain of joy.

1806 R. Fellowes tr. J. Milton Second Def. in C. Symmons Prose Wks. John Milton VI. 440 Those money-changers..do not merely truckle with doves but with the dove itself, with the Spirit of the Most High.

1881 G. A. Jackson Fathers of Third Cent. 143 We are subject only to the Most High,..demons having power over us only as we are alienate from him.

1903 Messiah Pulpit 16 Jan. 3 The first man..was a workingman, raised up from the dust by the Most High to be His day's man.

2000 Big Issue 4 Sept. 27/3 Pray For Me sees him on top..form, blasting out righteous calls to get badly caned and praise the most high.