Crossword clues for celestial
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celestial \Ce*les"tial\, a. [OF. celestial, celestied, fr. L. caelestic, fr. caelum heaved. See Cell.]
Belonging to the a["e]rial regions, or visible heavens. ``The twelve celestial signs.''
--Shak.Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. ``Celestial spirits.'' ``Celestial light,''
--Milton.-
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Chinese, or Celestial, Empire, of the Chinese people.
Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem.
--Bunyan.Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appointed by heaven.
--S. W. Williams.
Celestial \Ce*les"tial\, n.
An inhabitant of heaven.
--Pope.A native of China; a Chinaman; a Chinese. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "pertaining to heaven," from Old French celestial "celestial, heavenly, sky-blue," from Latin caelestis "heavenly, pertaining to the sky," from caelum "heaven, sky; abode of the gods; climate," which is of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE *kaid-slo-, perhaps from a root also found in Germanic and Baltic meaning "bright, clear" (compare Lithuanian skaidrus "shining, clear;" Old English hador, German heiter "clear, shining, cloudless," Old Norse heið "clear sky").\n
\nThe Latin word is the source of the usual word for "sky" in most of the Romance languages, such as French ciel, Spanish cielo, Italian cielo. General sense of "heavenly, very delightful" in English is from early 15c.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 Relating to heaven in a religious sense. 2 Relating to the sky or space. 3 (context Mormonism English) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory. n. An inhabitant of heaven. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete sometimes capitalized English) A native of China.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the sky; "celestial map"; "a heavenly body" [syn: heavenly]
relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven; "celestial beings"; "heavenly hosts" [syn: heavenly]
of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [syn: ethereal, supernal]
Wikipedia
The Celestials are a group of fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Immensely powerful and of huge humanoid shape, the Celestials are some of the oldest entities in the Marvel Comics universe. They debuted in the Bronze Age of Comic Books and have appeared in Marvel publications for four decades. They also appear in various forms of merchandise such as trading cards.
Celestial may refer to:
- Celestial bodies
- Angels and seraphs of Heaven
Celestial (English: Heavenly) is the third studio album by Mexican pop group RBD.
The album has sold 9 millions copies worldwide.
Celestial (Versão Brasil) (English: Celestial (Brazil Version))is the Portuguese version of Celestial, the third studio album by Mexican pop group RBD. It was released on December 4, 2006 through EMI Records in Brazil. The album contain 8 tracks in Portuguese, and 3 bonus tracks in Spanish.
The Album sells more than 1,2 million copies just in Brazil.
"Celestial" ( English: "Heavenly") is a Latin pop song written by Carlos Lara and Pedro Damián and recorded by the Mexican pop group RBD for their third Spanish studio album Celestial (2006).
Celestial is the debut album by American post-metal band ISIS, released in 2000 by Escape Artist and Hydra Head Records. It is their third solo release and first full length.
A year later, Isis released SGNL>05, an EP designed to act as an extension to Celestial; its tracks were all directly culled from the Celestial recording sessions. Frontman Aaron Turner describes them as being “part of the same whole”, separated from each other because releasing a double album for the group's first full-length may have been overbearing for listeners.
In addition to the regular CD and vinyl LP editions, Celestial is available in a double release, coupled with its sister EP, SGNL>05. On June 5, 2013, it was announced that Celestial would be re-issued by Ipecac Recordings with new artwork from Turner, as well as the audio having been recently remastered by James Plotkin.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, celestials are a class of creatures and monsters known as outsiders who are of wholly good alignment.
In the context of the Dungeons & Dragons games they represent forces of armed justice, and include iconic “good” creatures from history and myth, such as angels, who seek out and destroy evil.
All celestials hail from the Upper Planes.
There are four published types of celestial: Aasimon (or devas or angels), Archons, Eladrins, and Guardinals, each with varying “good” outlooks and motivations. The celestials are led by celestial paragons, unique creatures presented in Dungeons and Dragons lore as polar opposites of the demon princes and archdevils.
Celestial is the final full-length studio album by Circle X and was released in 1994.
After experimenting and releasing EPs for more than a decade, Celestial marked the band's first major release since Prehistory in 1983.
Celestial is regarded as "showcasing the diverse, honed ideas in an impressive cycle of thought-provoking bludgeons and sublime dirges", and "Circle X made it seem like no wave never went away."
The album would be the last album by Circle X, due to the death of founding member and guitarist Bruce Witsiepe from HIV complications in 1995.
Usage examples of "celestial".
Celestial Spirit but God, as knowing no admixture, gathered cleanly within itself.
Mr Parmenter, as he handed the aerogram across the big table littered with maps, plans and drawings of localities terrestrial and celestial.
Here were sister planets, celestial twins with one difference: this world, Argentil, after billions of years of active presence in the human community, had dropped all contact and refused to respond to any signals.
Vyasa came to visit Yudhishthir, and advised Arjun, great archer as he was, to acquire celestial arms by penance and worship.
Rhapsody watched as the bright celestial light dimmed in the brightening sky, then began to sing her last customary aubade, the song to Seren, the star she was born beneath, on the other side of the world.
A dream, and the promise of our long-ago celestial begetters, who had not forgotten the distant generations of their children, in whose red blood a thin thread of ichor ran still.
But the Chief of the Celestial Empire created a Power which he placed on the frontiers of Heaven to protect his Eons, and destroy the Empire of Evil.
Limited Time, as contradistinguished from Time without limits, or Eternity, is Time created and measured by the celestial revolutions.
Triumph after triumph, the highest awards and degrees, elevation to important office, advisor to emperors and savior of peasants, and eventual deification to become Celestial Patron of scrofulous, illiterate, lice-ridden lads digging ditches behind schoolhouses.
The celestial gift, which Achilles obtained, and Alexander envied, of a poet worthy to celebrate the actions of heroes has been enjoyed by Stilicho, in a much higher degree than might have been expected from the declining state of genius, and of art.
We may now consider the question whether fire is the sole element existing in that celestial realm and whether there is any outgoing thence with the consequent need of renewal.
She stepped lightly toward him, eyes bright, a celestial vision of floaty ivory gauze and titian curls.
This capacity of fructification and multiplication without end or to infinity and eternity exists in natural things with men, in spiritual with the spiritual angels, and in celestial with the celestial angels.
By my silence I praised the virtue of this celestial being, in whose destiny I only had a part by one of those caprices of chance which philosophy seeks to explain in vain.
The sky had gotten much lighter, and underneath my feet the hailstones were crunching, as if someone up there had accidentally overturned some kind of celestial ice cube tray.