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on high

prep_phrase
/ɒn ˈhaɪ/UK/ɑn ˈhaɪ/US

Etymology

From Middle English on heigh, on an heigh (“in or into heaven; up to heaven”) [and other forms], from Old English on hēagum (“on high”); hēagum is an inflected form of hēah (“high; tall”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“height; to elevate”). The English word is equivalent to on + high. Compare Dutch omhoog (“upwards, on high”), West Frisian omheech (“upwards”).

  1. inherited from *kewk-✻ — “height; to elevate”
  2. inherited from on hēagum — “on high”
  3. inherited from on heigh

Definitions

  1. To a high position

    To a high position; or up in, or to, the sky; above.

    • So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky, / They cannot see the Sun on high; / The wind hath blown a gale all day, / At evening it hath died away.

  2. Up in, or to, Heaven.

    • Who is like vnto the Lord our God: who dwelleth on high: […]
    • The trumpet ſhall be heard on high, / The dead ſhall live, the living die, / And Muſic ſhall untune the ſky.

  3. In authority, influence, or power.

    • According to those on high, taxes need to increase again.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA