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.
Usage examples of "celestial city".
But in the family of the just man who lives by faith and is as yet a pilgrim journeying on to the celestial city, even those who rule serve those whom they seem to command.
First-century Imperial Rome might be a jaw-dropper to your average Visi-Goth but nothing short of the Celestial City itself could have prepared him for' the glittering spectacle of night-time New York.
He was half as old as the Celestial City itself, and not more than ten of the gods remembered the founding of that abode.
I will take you back to the Celestial City with me, where you may now accept that which you once refused.
It is impossible that Alexander, great king but a pagan, had arrived at the celestial city, and therefore what he and Tugdalus had seen was the Earthly Paradise.