1894 Brewer’s / B / Beatific Vision
The sight of the Deity, or of the blessed in the realms of heaven. (See Isaiah vi. 1–4, and Acts vii, 55, 56.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.