cælestial

comparative more cælestial · superlative most cælestial

1. not comparableobsoleteusuallyObsolete spelling of celestial.

   Deſire of Povver, on Earth a Vicious VVeed, / Yet, ſprung from High, is of Cæleſtial Seed: / In God 'tis Glory: And vvhen men Aſpire, / 'Tis but a Spark too much of Heavenly Fire.

   1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], →OCLC, page 10

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   [T]he pictures of the cæleſtial globe vvere deſigned memoriæ cauſâ, by the ſouthern Scythians, vvho dvvelt in Chaldæa, Armenia, &c.— […] [W]e mean to prove, that the ſouthern Scythians, from vvhom the Iriſh and primitive inhabitants of Britain are deſcended, vvere the authors or inventors of thoſe extraordinary figures on the cæleſtial charts, vvhich they drevv or painted as repreſentations of the things expreſſed by the vvord formed of the aſtronomical characters.

   1790, Charles Vallancey, “Of the Use and Application of the Cælestial Alphabet as an Astronomical Character; and of the Origin of the Figures on the Cælestial Globe”, in Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis. […], volume V, Dublin: […] R. Marchbank, […], →OCLC, pages 191–192

1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of celestial.

   There young Telemachus, his bloomy face / Glovving cæleſtial-ſvveet vvith godlike grace, / Amid the Circle ſhines: but hope and fear / (Painful viciſſitude!) his boſom tear.

   1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 22, lines 148–151