The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celestine \Cel"es*tine\, Celestite \Cel"es*tite\,, n. [LL. caelestinus bine.] (Min.) Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.
Celestine \Cel"es*tine\, Celestinian \Cel`es*tin"i*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.
Wiktionary
n. (context Roman Catholicism English) A member of a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.
Wikipedia
Celestine or celestite ( Sr S O) is a mineral consisting of strontium sulfate. The mineral is named for its occasional delicate blue color. Celestine is the principal source of the element strontium, commonly used in fireworks and in various metal alloys.
Celestine may refer to:
People:
- Pope Celestine I (died 432)
- Pope Celestine II (died 1144)
- Pope Celestine III (c. 1106–1198)
- Pope Celestine IV (died 1241)
- Pope Celestine V (1215–1296)
- Antipope Celestine II, antipope for one day: December 16, 1124
- Celestine Babayaro (born 1978), Nigerian former footballer
- Celestine Damiano (1911-1967), American Roman Catholic prelate
- Célestine Galli-Marié (1840–1905), French mezzo-soprano who created the title role in the opera Carmen
- Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière (1798–1882), French-born American Roman Catholic prelate
- Celestine Tate Harrington (1956–1998), quadriplegic street musician known for playing the keyboard with her lips and tongue
- Célestine N'Drin (born 1963), Côte d'Ivoire runner who specialized in the 400 and 800 metres
- Celestine Omehia (born 1959), Nigerian politician
- Celestine Sibley (1914–1999), Southern American author, journalist, and syndicated columnist
- James Celestine (born 1973), Bermudian cricketer
Fictional characters:
- Célestine (Mirbeau), main character and narrator of the French novel The Diary of a Chambermaid, by Octave Mirbeau
- Celestine Tavernier, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Celestine (comics), in the Image Comics universe
Other uses:
- Celestines, a branch of the Benedictine Order of monks
- Celestine (mineral), a mineral, also known as celestite, found worldwide
- Celestine, Indiana, a town in Dubois County, Indiana
- La Celestine (Carlota Valdivia), a 1904 painting from Picasso's Blue Period
- Celestine (band), a metal band from Iceland, see Music of Iceland
- Celestine (band), a Christian female singer from the United States, who was originally from the Philipinnes.
Celestine is a fictional character from in the Image Comics comic book universe created by Alan Moore, Rob Liefeld and Brian Denham. She was described as an avenging angel, responsible for the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah and other Old Testament atrocities. She is described as immensely enjoying her work.
She first appeared in comics hunting the demon character known as the Violator.
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Célestine is the main character and the narrator of the French novel by Octave Mirbeau, The Diary of a Chambermaid (fr. Le Journal d'une femme de chambre), 1900.
Celestine is the sixth studio album of TV host-singer and actress, Toni Gonzaga, under Star Records released on May 20, 2014 in the Philippines in Digital format and on May 29 for physical release. The album's original release was scheduled in November 2013 but delayed due to many demands of her other projects including the completion of her most grossing film, Starting Over Again, her sitcom Home Sweetie Home, and her reality show The Voice of the Philippines. This is her first album to released in four years after All Me in 2010.
Gonzaga claimed that Celestine is her most personal and best album keeping it with easy to relate tracks. Further, on October 3, 2014 was the announced concert date which part of promotional tool to support the album. The concert was extended on January 16, 2015 where in she performed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel.
Back to the album, it was certified gold record by PARI in January 2015.
Usage examples of "celestine".
Who are, by the way, the same people Ayers and Celestine and Reynolds are preying on.
Celestine watched from the shelter of the trees as five of her werewolves fought the one Ayers had identified as Jim London.
If Mme Musette had been telling the truth, and the Celestines really were thick with every law-enforcement agency between here and Connecticut, they would find themselves back at the Church of the Angels on Elegance Street before they knew it.
CHAPTER XX CELESTINE IMPARTS INFORMATION Plit is only as strong as its weakest link.
A star upon your birthday burned, whose fierce, serene, red, pulseless planet never yearned in heaven, Celestine.
At the head of an Italian synod, Celestine weighed the merits of the cause, approved the creed of Cyril, condemned the sentiments and person of Nestorius, degraded the heretic from his episcopal dignity, allowed a respite of ten days for recantation and penance, and delegated to his enemy the execution of this rash and illegal sentence.
This time the markings looked more complicated, and at first I feared that Celestine had been over-confident.
I said, accepting for myself that whatever this problem was, Celestine had definitely understood it.
It took quarter of an hour, but after that time we had all - Hirz included - convinced ourselves by brute force that Celestine was right.
The door had damaged the thigh of her suit, grazing an inch of its armour away as it closed, but Celestine herself had not been injured.
And the problem itself was not simply a numerical exercise, but - as far as Celestine could say with any certainty - a problem about topological transformations in four dimensions.
It was just that, thanks to her experiences with the Pattern Jugglers, Celestine would always arrive at the answer with the superhuman speed of a savant.
But instead Celestine just spoke with the flat, soporific tones of one who could not quite believe she had made such an error.
You did your best, Celestine - better than any of us could have managed.
I glanced at Celestine, trying to judge if she felt as oddly as I did.