Lexic.us

Definition of Celestial

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the sky. "A heavenly body"

2. Adjective. Relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven. "Heavenly hosts"

3. Adjective. Of heaven or the spirit. "The supernal happiness of a quiet death"

Definition of Celestial

1. a. Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens.

2. n. An inhabitant of heaven.

3. a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Chinese, or Celestial, Empire, of the Chinese people.

4. n. A Chinaman; a Chinese.

Definition of Celestial

1. Adjective. Relating to heaven in a religious sense. ¹

2. Adjective. Relating to the sky or space. ¹

3. Adjective. (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory. ¹

4. Noun. An inhabitant of heaven. ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) (context: sometimes capitalized) A native of China. ¹

6. Noun. (obsolete slang) by extension, an East Asian person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Celestial

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Celestial

celery pine celery root celery salt celery seed celery seeds celery stick celery top pine celerylike celesta celestas

celeste celestes celestial (current term) celestial bodies celestial body celestial equator celestial equators celestial globe celestial guidance celestial hierarchy

celestial horizon celestial latitude celestial longitude celestial mechanics celestial navigation celestial object celestial objects

Literary usage of Celestial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Astronomy by Simon Newcomb, Günter Dietmar Roth, Arthur Beer, Edward Singleton Holden (1883)
"The great circles of the celestial sphere which pass through the two celestial ... Each hour-circle is the celestial meridian of some place on the earth. ..."

2. Outlines of Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1861)
"Every star in the great constellation which appears to revolve above us, constitutes, so to speak, a celestial station ; and among these stations we may, ..."

3. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"The old astronomers mut this difficulty by supposing that the celestial sphere was so large that any possible motion of the observer would be insignificant ..."

4. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"At the close of this brief review of celestial dynamics, we see that, ... In the execution of astronomical tables it has to borrow from celestial geometry ..."

5. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"THE celestial SPHERE. — In order to understand the theory of this ... 34 represents that half of the celestial sphere which is visible at one time to an ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Laplace was said to have been born to complete celestial mechanics, if, indeed, it were in the nature of a science to admit of completan; and quite as much ..."

7. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Over this stile is the way to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant Despair, who despiseth the King of the celestial Country, and seeks to destroy his ..."

8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"Examples chosen in rational mechanics and in celestial mechanics would readily show the rôle which ordinary differential equations play in the progress of ..."

Other Resources: