celestial
adjective
pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in
celestiality
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a word derived from
celestial.
Example Sentences
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Or that Dr. Johnstone-Lavis called a carved stone a "lapstone," quite as Mr. Symons called a spherical object a "cannon ball": bent upon a discrediting incongruity: Shoemaking and celestiality.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
Just why celestiality, or that of it which, too, is only of Intermediateness should not be quite as amusing as terrestriality is beyond our reasoning powers, which we have agreed are not ordinary.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
She interrupted, “You enter fresh from your worst infamy, last instance of a long outrage—throw off hate’s celestiality, show me a mere man’s hand ignobly clenched against the supreme calmness of the dead poet.”
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
