Celestial

/sɪˈlɛs.ti.əl/ · adjective

Meaning

(not comparable) Of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space, where the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are visible..

Definitions by Sense

1. (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space, where the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are visible.
2. Of a nose: upturned, as if towards the sky.
3. Of or relating to China; Chinese.
4. (figurative, comparable) Extremely beautiful, good, or pleasurable; divine, heavenly, wonderful.
5. (religion, not comparable) Of or relating to heaven as the place where deities (or the Christian God), spiritual beings, etc., exist; heavenly.
6. Synonym of celestially (“in a celestial manner (adjective senses)”).
7. An inhabitant of heaven.
8. A thing from heaven; also, a heavenly quality.

Example Sentences

[G]oe vvith ſpeede / To ſome forlorne and naked Hermytage, / Remote from all the pleaſurs of the vvorld: / There ſtay vntill the tvvelue Celeſtiall Signes / Haue brought about the annuall reckoning.

[W]e muſt of neceſſitie vſe the benefit of yeares, daies, hovvers, minutes, vvhich all grovve from cœleſtiall motion.

[T]he pictures of the cæleſtial globe vvere deſigned memoriæ cauſâ [for memory's sake], by the ſouthern Scythians, vvho dvvelt in Chaldæa, Armenia, &c.— […] [W]e mean to prove, that the ſouthern Scythians, from vvhom the Iriſh and primitive inhabitants of Britain are deſcended, vvere the authors or inventors of thoſe extraordinary figures on the cæleſtial charts, vvhich they drevv or painted as repreſentations of the things expreſſed by the vvord formed of the aſtronomical characters.

He [Ebenezer Scrooge] then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.

A Celestial Nose in a woman is very frequently an index of wit. […] A Celestial-nosed woman is only more witty than a similarly gifted man, because the impudence which it invariably indicates is backed by woman's ever-ready tact and quickness.

If there is a man in the Celestial Empire, who will lay his hand upon his breast, and declare in the presence of our God, that he hath derived more pleasure from truth than from lies, then let Rao-Gong-Fao be thrown on his belly, and let his back be channelled for a bamboo-bed.

We ate chow-chow with chop-sticks in the celestial restaurants; […]

[H]e possessed the most delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: […]

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Word Forms

• more celestial
• most celestial
• cælestial
• cælestiall
• celestiall
• cœlestial
• celestials
• Celestial

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