Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Built by the agency or favor of the gods.

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Examples

  • Now Jim, the young heaven-built mechanic, in the dusk of the evening before,

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

  • And Jim Jones, a heaven-built mechanic, the slyest young knave in the room,

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

  • He finds these heaven-built fortresses all scattered through the land;

    Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses 1902

  • Moreover let the heralds tell it about the city that the growing youths and grey-bearded men are to camp upon its heaven-built walls.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Moreover let the heralds tell it about the city that the growing youths and grey-bearded men are to camp upon its heaven-built walls.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • They have come down to us from the world before the papal flood, bearing in their heaven-built and heaven-guarded ark the sacred oracles; and now they stand before us as a witness to the historic truth of Christianity, and a living copy, in doctrine, in government, and in manners, of the Church of the Apostles.

    Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849

  • As when we wrapp'd Troy's heaven-built walls in fire.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716

  • As when we wrapp’d Troy’s heaven-built walls in fire.

    The Odyssey of Homer 2003

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