LekhoriLekhoriThe sky, specifically:
All that is vnder the heauen.
The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
And there was a battel in heauen. Michael & his Angels foght againſt the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde anie more in heauen.
The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust
To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse.
To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.
The abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location; the abode of the blessed departed who reside in the presence of God or the gods
Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc.
Providence, the will of God or the gods, when considered as a personal entity or specific aspect of the divine; Fate
...but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs,
From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”),...
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They [Byron's Tales]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray.
To beautify, to make into a paradise.
Other extended senses of heaven as a specific place similar to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed departed
The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.