Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Heavenly; celestial.

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Examples

  • Aupres de mon pere celest 'on chant'ra les louanges.

    Folk Songs of French Canada 1925

  • [Sidenote: Lord, bless us.] ++Mense celest {is} p {ar} ticipes faciat nos Rex et {er} ne glorie /

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • I couldn’t put down the book because I just wanted to know what celest would do next.

    Review: Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka 2008

  • ++Mense celest {is} ++Expurgate vetus ferme {n} tum [H] vt sitis noua co {n} sp {er} sio, sicut estis asimi: [c] Eteni {m} pascha n {ost} r {u} m

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Thereupon, even as the flash of the spirit, I returned to the realms of celest and breathed it not in My retreats above unto the hosts of holiness. "

    Epistle to the Son of the Wolf 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854

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