celestial
adjective
pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in
supercelestial
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a word derived from
celestial.
Example Sentences
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You may imagine, then, that the souls, once unfettered from the body, may, together with their torments, be capable of great comforts and divine favors, and break forth into resolute, heroical, and even supercelestial acts.
From Purgatory by Mrs. James Sadlier
"Reaching the summit, they proceed outside, and, standing on the back of heaven, its revolution carries them round, and they behold that supercelestial region which no poet here can ever sing of as it deserves."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
For who can conceive these things, unless he has spent at least six and thirty years in the philosophical and supercelestial whims of Aristotle and the Schoolmen?
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
Let them praise Thy Name, let them praise Thee, the supercelestial people, Thine angels, who have no need to gaze up at this firmament, or by reading to know of Thy Word.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
"The first sphere is the natural; the second, the spiritual; the third, the celestial; the fourth, the supernatural; the fifth, the superspiritual; the sixth, the supercelestial; the seventh, the Infinite Vortex of Love and Wisdom."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
