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Definition of celestial in English: celestialadjective sɪˈlɛstɪəlsəˈlɛstʃəl 1attributive Positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy. Example sentencesExamples - She contributed to her father's texts on mathematics and astronomy, often compiling tables of the position of celestial bodies.
- Clearly the Maya were astute astronomers capable of predicting celestial events and keeping records of solar eclipses and other events.
- Galileo took the position that all celestial phenomena should be interpreted in terms of terrestrial analogies, against Aristotle's basic postulate of essential differences.
- Although there is no air in space, energy is carried by radiation, usually coming from the Sun, that causes heating when it is absorbed by spacecraft, planets or other celestial bodies.
- In the case of an object orbiting a planet or other celestial body, where the mass of the object is much less than the mass of the planet, the object will fall towards the planet.
- Winthrop is often regarded as the first true ‘American astronomer,’ and he made observations of many celestial phenomena.
- Tycho's awe at astronomers' predictions of celestial events turned to disillusion as his own observational skills developed.
- Often, the two satellites have observed the same celestial object simultaneously, to gain a more complete record of the object's behaviour at gamma ray and X-ray wavelengths.
- For it is the duty of an astronomer to record celestial motions through careful observation.
- Fundamentally, a satellite in orbit moves in an elliptical path created by the gravitational force of a celestial body such as a planet.
- The Earth needed a supply of water for its oceans, and the comets are large celestial icebergs - frozen reservoirs of water orbiting the Sun.
- The 1979 Moon Treaty forbids ownership of the natural resources found on the Moon or other celestial bodies.
- Page 28 of the Codex Borgia is, in effect, one page in an almanac produced by astronomer-calculators to suit a particular time and place of celestial observation.
- In the coming months, astronomy enthusiasts are in for a string of rare celestial events involving the heavenly bodies in the solar system.
- Comets are very interesting celestial objects.
- Put simply, the basis of celestial circles, astronomical events and planetary motion can't be conveyed by words, they have to be demonstrated through diagrams.
- For six hours, Venus casts its shadow across the solar surface in a celestial display that has astronomers in a tizzy.
- She also wrote books on astronomy, compiled tables of positions of celestial bodies and designed several scientific instruments.
- Last night the blood orange moon hung low in the sky, as if some celestial giant had impressed his dirty thumbprint into the heavens themselves.
- This complementary data is also helping astronomers identify the celestial object that is releasing the gamma rays and allow it to be more fully analysed.
Synonyms (in) space, heavenly, astronomical, extraterrestrial, stellar, planetary, in the sky, in the heavens rare superterrestrial - 1.1 Belonging or relating to heaven.
Example sentencesExamples - One day, Hou Yi ran across the Empress of Heaven, Wangmu, and asked her for a parcel of elixir that could allow him to ascend immediately to the heavens and become a celestial being.
- There are no Gods, no grand plans, no celestial architects, no blissful after-lives and no eternal damnation.
- They were seen as politically conservative, concentrating on ‘things celestial and heavenly’.
- Great Immortal Huang, or Wong Tai Sin, is a celestial figure like the god of fortune for people in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
- At the same time, Buddhas have the power to manifest themselves in a sublime celestial form in splendid paradises.
- Christine in turn believes the Phantom to be the stern ‘Angel of Music’ who became her celestial guardian after the death of her father.
- All these flowery metaphors conjure up before readers the celestial couple - Lord Shiva and his divine consort Gauri.
- Bunyan sought to keep Christian on the narrow path to the celestial city.
- Although the name signifies the music of celestial beings, Yakshagana is an amalgam of the ‘sky with the earth.’
- The only other painting in the room is Tinteretto's giant picture of paradise, a celestial human traffic jam.
- We also maintain there is no conclusive evidence that Polynesians considered the first European visitors to be divine or celestial beings.
- So he is not, like Frankenstein, defying the gods but reaching out for a taste of the celestial heaven and therefore deserving to be honored as the best among men.
- The performance was an attempt at reviving the legendary playing of music prior to the celestial wedding of Goddess Meenakshi with Lord Sundareswarar.
- At the same time, Rahu is made immortal by his having tasted the celestial drink, Soma.
- I think the Garden of Eden now revived by eco-spirituality, has come to represent the once hoped-for celestial paradise.
- Now here is what is interesting, the worshippers of Mithras strongly believed in a celestial heaven and an infernal hell.
- They look towards the great republic as if it were a celestial city, a fortress and arsenal of the cause.
- The Church used the quest to stimulate fervor for the crusade to refound the celestial city, the New Jerusalem, while secular powers exploited it to forge trade routes to the East.
- It was about a celestial vehicle used by heavenly beings.
- One picture in that book, of a joyous naked child arching through the sky in front of a celestial city, remains my earliest image of heaven.
Synonyms heavenly, holy, saintly, divine, godly, godlike, ethereal, paradisical, Elysian, spiritual, empyrean, superlunary immortal, angelic, seraphic, cherubic, blessed, beatific, blissful, sublime - 1.2 Supremely good.
the celestial beauty of music Example sentencesExamples - Rosand's soaring arc of sound and pristine, classical phrasing made the celestial beauty of this heavenly music soar.
- I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance!
- The Persian's celestial beauty must be maintained with the earthly toil of combing and brushing on an almost daily basis.
- The Lady had indeed a celestial beauty, but also carried a strong, fierce independence that also made her beautiful.
- He just watched her, like a statue of celestial beauty, while he licked his lips and the snow fell and collected in his hair.
- There was a second lighter dark patch up there that rivaled the first one and I almost laughed at my odd desperation to see nature's celestial beauty.
- Karajan's emphases, apart from making music of celestial beauty, are on the opposite poles of intimacy and grandeur.
- You can't help but feel blessed to be alive, to be able to witness such celestial beauty.
- However, it is the gateway to the Tienshan - Heavenly - Mountains and its appropriately celestial scenery at Tianche, Heaven Lake.
- I see them also as my joys invaluable, divine, and celestial.
- She draws some truly eloquent sounds from the organ, which though relatively young, is an instrument of incomparable celestial beauty.
- Even the elaborate stone statues, basins, murals, tapestries, and miscellaneous decorations seemed to exhibit a celestial beauty.
Derivatives adverb On Wednesday they mix pile-driving Hammond organ, celestially cacophonic guitar and vocals as tight as their shirts. Example sentencesExamples - Now the celestially challenged have The Star Finder Book, by David Burch, to help them use the Star Finder as a handheld planetarium.
- They simply said that, while Sister X snoozed celestially in her cell, the devil assumed her form and shape, tucked his tail under a habit, crept downstairs and ate all the pies.
- But if you liberate a ballroom, football field or galaxy inside your brain, you can entertain concepts of any size, from microscopic to behemoth to celestially vast.
- My final vision of the shark is of it rising celestially toward the surface, its outline defined from above by the filtered sunlight.
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis, from caelum 'heaven'. Definition of celestial in US English: celestialadjectivesəˈlesCHəlsəˈlɛstʃəl 1attributive Positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy. Example sentencesExamples - Galileo took the position that all celestial phenomena should be interpreted in terms of terrestrial analogies, against Aristotle's basic postulate of essential differences.
- Comets are very interesting celestial objects.
- The 1979 Moon Treaty forbids ownership of the natural resources found on the Moon or other celestial bodies.
- Last night the blood orange moon hung low in the sky, as if some celestial giant had impressed his dirty thumbprint into the heavens themselves.
- She also wrote books on astronomy, compiled tables of positions of celestial bodies and designed several scientific instruments.
- Put simply, the basis of celestial circles, astronomical events and planetary motion can't be conveyed by words, they have to be demonstrated through diagrams.
- This complementary data is also helping astronomers identify the celestial object that is releasing the gamma rays and allow it to be more fully analysed.
- Often, the two satellites have observed the same celestial object simultaneously, to gain a more complete record of the object's behaviour at gamma ray and X-ray wavelengths.
- The Earth needed a supply of water for its oceans, and the comets are large celestial icebergs - frozen reservoirs of water orbiting the Sun.
- In the coming months, astronomy enthusiasts are in for a string of rare celestial events involving the heavenly bodies in the solar system.
- Although there is no air in space, energy is carried by radiation, usually coming from the Sun, that causes heating when it is absorbed by spacecraft, planets or other celestial bodies.
- Fundamentally, a satellite in orbit moves in an elliptical path created by the gravitational force of a celestial body such as a planet.
- For six hours, Venus casts its shadow across the solar surface in a celestial display that has astronomers in a tizzy.
- In the case of an object orbiting a planet or other celestial body, where the mass of the object is much less than the mass of the planet, the object will fall towards the planet.
- Clearly the Maya were astute astronomers capable of predicting celestial events and keeping records of solar eclipses and other events.
- Tycho's awe at astronomers' predictions of celestial events turned to disillusion as his own observational skills developed.
- For it is the duty of an astronomer to record celestial motions through careful observation.
- Winthrop is often regarded as the first true ‘American astronomer,’ and he made observations of many celestial phenomena.
- Page 28 of the Codex Borgia is, in effect, one page in an almanac produced by astronomer-calculators to suit a particular time and place of celestial observation.
- She contributed to her father's texts on mathematics and astronomy, often compiling tables of the position of celestial bodies.
Synonyms space, in space, heavenly, astronomical, extraterrestrial, stellar, planetary, in the sky, in the heavens - 1.1 Belonging or relating to heaven.
Example sentencesExamples - I think the Garden of Eden now revived by eco-spirituality, has come to represent the once hoped-for celestial paradise.
- The only other painting in the room is Tinteretto's giant picture of paradise, a celestial human traffic jam.
- At the same time, Rahu is made immortal by his having tasted the celestial drink, Soma.
- They look towards the great republic as if it were a celestial city, a fortress and arsenal of the cause.
- Great Immortal Huang, or Wong Tai Sin, is a celestial figure like the god of fortune for people in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
- At the same time, Buddhas have the power to manifest themselves in a sublime celestial form in splendid paradises.
- There are no Gods, no grand plans, no celestial architects, no blissful after-lives and no eternal damnation.
- The Church used the quest to stimulate fervor for the crusade to refound the celestial city, the New Jerusalem, while secular powers exploited it to forge trade routes to the East.
- Now here is what is interesting, the worshippers of Mithras strongly believed in a celestial heaven and an infernal hell.
- It was about a celestial vehicle used by heavenly beings.
- All these flowery metaphors conjure up before readers the celestial couple - Lord Shiva and his divine consort Gauri.
- They were seen as politically conservative, concentrating on ‘things celestial and heavenly’.
- So he is not, like Frankenstein, defying the gods but reaching out for a taste of the celestial heaven and therefore deserving to be honored as the best among men.
- One picture in that book, of a joyous naked child arching through the sky in front of a celestial city, remains my earliest image of heaven.
- Although the name signifies the music of celestial beings, Yakshagana is an amalgam of the ‘sky with the earth.’
- Bunyan sought to keep Christian on the narrow path to the celestial city.
- Christine in turn believes the Phantom to be the stern ‘Angel of Music’ who became her celestial guardian after the death of her father.
- One day, Hou Yi ran across the Empress of Heaven, Wangmu, and asked her for a parcel of elixir that could allow him to ascend immediately to the heavens and become a celestial being.
- The performance was an attempt at reviving the legendary playing of music prior to the celestial wedding of Goddess Meenakshi with Lord Sundareswarar.
- We also maintain there is no conclusive evidence that Polynesians considered the first European visitors to be divine or celestial beings.
Synonyms heavenly, holy, saintly, divine, godly, godlike, ethereal, paradisical, elysian, spiritual, empyrean, superlunary - 1.2 Supremely good.
the celestial beauty of music Example sentencesExamples - However, it is the gateway to the Tienshan - Heavenly - Mountains and its appropriately celestial scenery at Tianche, Heaven Lake.
- The Persian's celestial beauty must be maintained with the earthly toil of combing and brushing on an almost daily basis.
- Rosand's soaring arc of sound and pristine, classical phrasing made the celestial beauty of this heavenly music soar.
- I see them also as my joys invaluable, divine, and celestial.
- Karajan's emphases, apart from making music of celestial beauty, are on the opposite poles of intimacy and grandeur.
- She draws some truly eloquent sounds from the organ, which though relatively young, is an instrument of incomparable celestial beauty.
- I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance!
- You can't help but feel blessed to be alive, to be able to witness such celestial beauty.
- There was a second lighter dark patch up there that rivaled the first one and I almost laughed at my odd desperation to see nature's celestial beauty.
- The Lady had indeed a celestial beauty, but also carried a strong, fierce independence that also made her beautiful.
- Even the elaborate stone statues, basins, murals, tapestries, and miscellaneous decorations seemed to exhibit a celestial beauty.
- He just watched her, like a statue of celestial beauty, while he licked his lips and the snow fell and collected in his hair.
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis, from caelum ‘heaven’. |