celestial
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celestial englanniksi
(senseid) Of, relating to, or located in the sky or space, where the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are visible.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)
(RQ:Hooker Laws)
(quote-book)|trans-title=Collection of Irish Matters|location=Dublin|publisher=(...) R. Marchbank,(nb...)|volume=V|pages=191–192|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b28770481_0005/page/192/mode/1up|oclc=1555573455|passage=The pictures of the cæleſtial globe vvere deſigned memoriæ cauſâ (quote-gloss), by the ſouthern Scythians, vvho dvvelt in Chaldæa, Armenia, &c.— (..) We 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.
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol) 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.
(quote-book)|page=203|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b2930913x_0001/page/203/mode/1up|oclc=479075|passage=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.|footer=(small)
(RQ:Landor Imaginary Conversations)
(RQ:Twain Roughing It)
(RQ:James Europeans)
(quote-journal) For the Society of Arts|Royal Society Arts by Bell & Sons|George Bell and Sons,(nb...)|year_published=14 April 1893|volume=XLI|issue=2,108|page=512|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/journalofsociety41soci/page/512/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=880942705|passage=It is no wonder that loose, portable locks, like those used to secure baggage of all kinds in transit, should become well known and distributed, especially along the ancient lines of trade. But as this style of padlock is found to be the almost universal one now in China, one is tempted to ask who was the first and true inventor, Roman or Celestial?
Extremely beautiful, good, or pleasurable; divine, heavenly, wonderful.
(RQ:Guardian 1713)
(quote-journal) pseudonym|title=(w): How Can You Tell a Good Coconut from a Yukky One?|journal=Chicago Reader|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330155052/https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/386/how-can-you-tell-a-good-coconut-from-a-yukky-one/|location=Chicago, Ill.|publisher=Chicago Reader|issn=1096-6919|oclc=847000178|passage=Dear Cecil: (..) When are they in season and is there any way to judge which one to bring home? A really bad coconut is soooo yukky. But a really good coconut is so celestial. (..) Sadie, Chicago. / Cecil replies: (..) If you can hear the milk sloshing inside, odds are you’ve got a celestial coconut rather than a yukky one.
Of or relating to heaven as the place where deities (or the Christian God), spiritual beings, etc., exist; heavenly.
(RQ:Tyndale NT) aryſe? with what body ſhall they come? (..) There are celeſtiall bodyes&11805; and there are bodyes terreſtriall: Butt the glory of the celeſtiall is one&11805; and the glory off the terreſtriall is another.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Milton Comus)'' her (quote-gloss) fam'd Son advanc't, / Holds his deare ''(mythology)|Pſyche'' ſvveet intranc't (..)
(RQ:Taylor Works) charges them if at any time they come to offer with malice couchant in their breasts, that they should leave their gift at the Altar, and goe, be reconciled. (..) It was spoken of the cælestiall temple, of which ours are adumbrations, or rather ours are the gates of that. Bethel or Gods house is the gate of Heaven.
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(RQ:Johnson Rambler)
(RQ:Carlyle Past and Present)
(RQ:NYT)'s one of the most exalted peaks of Balanchine|(quote-gloss) Balanchine's idea of classical style.
Of or relating to one or more deities, or the Christian God; divine, heavenly.
(RQ:Dryden Absalom)
Of or relating to the celestial kingdom, the highest of glory.
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(RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)'', his bloomy face / Glovving cæleſtial-ſvveet vvith godlike grace, / Amid the Circle ſhines: but hope and fear / (Painful viciſſitude!) his boſom tear.
An inhabitant of heaven.
(RQ:Virgil Phaer Eneidos) golden throne vproſe / whom home to heauenly court celeſtials garding at did cloſe.
(RQ:Johnson Rambler) began to entertain ''(mythology)|Venus'' at her toilet, by aping the ſolemnity of (smallcaps); and (smallcaps) to divert ''(w)'' at her loom, by expoſing the blunders and ignorance of (smallcaps).
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Publishing Group|Fleming H. Revell Company|page=x|oclc=2361439|passage=For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch. Scriptures prove that.
(RQ:Douay Bible) of the Bible, ''cœleſtials'' is translated as “heavenly things”.
A person who is extremely beautiful, of high status, or intelligent, etc.
(quote-book) You will feel only too painfully that you cannot always lay hold of them in the first stage of your studies; you will require steps to mount up to shake hands with these Celestials; and these steps are little books.
(senseid) ''Sometimes in the form'' Celestial: a native of China; a Chinese person.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Low|Sampson Low, Marston & Company(nb...)|pages=23–24|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/journeysamonggen00thom/page/n38/mode/1up|oclc=5535807|passage=Three celestials died during the voyage, and, in accordance with the contract, their remains were embalmed and carried on to China. (..) The Chinese attach great importance to certain religious offices being performed in presence of the dead man's relics, or at the spot where they are buried, by surviving relatives and descendants.
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