celestify

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UK/səˈlɛs.tə.faɪ/

verb

To make like heaven.

Similar
celestialize
OriginLatin caelestis →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verbcelestify (third-person singular simple present celestifies, present participle celestifying, simple past and past participle celestified)

present singular third person celestifies · participle present celestifying · participle past celestified · past celestified

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo make like heaven.

    we should affirm that all things were in all things, that heaven were but earth celestified, and earth but heaven terrestrified

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: celestialize

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo make like heaven.

Similar
celestialize

Origin

  1. Latincaelestis“heavenly”
  2. Englishcelestify

From Latin caelestis (“heavenly”) + -fy.

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APA

celestify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/celestify

MLA

“celestify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/celestify. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “celestify,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/celestify.

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