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† celsitude Obs. (exc. humorous).|ˈsɛlsɪtjuːd|
Also 6 selcitud, 7 celc-, celsitud.
[a. F. celsitude, ad. L. celsitūdo lofty carriage, also in late L. a title of honour, f. celsus lofty.]
1. Lofty position, high rank; dignity, eminence.
c1450Crt. of Love lxxxviii, Honour to thee..Goddess of love, and to thy celsitude. 1500–20Dunbar Gladethe thoue Queyne 7 Joy be and grace onto thi Selcitud! 1563Foxe A. & M. (1596) 16/2 This celsitude and regalitie of the pope. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxii. §15 See what Celsitud of honor Plinius secundus attributeth to Traiane. 1680tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni (1689) 63 It doth over-shadow them all with the Top of its Celsitude.
b. As a title or form of address; = highness.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 177, I beseik, he said, thi celsitude, Exerce thi strenth. 1685F. Spence Ho. Medici 265 His Celsitude gave him men to guard him.
2. Loftiness, exaltation; exalted character.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 294 Whose..celsitude of mind no man may sufficiently express. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. 185 Such a celsitude of spirit. a1761W. Law Behmen's Wks. (1765) 14 Sensibility, Finding, and Celsitude.
3. Height, tallness. (Now humorous.)
1678Phillips, Celsitude, tallness, heighth. 1721–1800Bailey, Celsitude, Highness, Height, Talness. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. i, Peter Peebles, in his usual plenitude of wig and celsitude of hat. |