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In a celestial manner.
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Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
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That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
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One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
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One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23ยก 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
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Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
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Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace.
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Higher than celestial; superangelic.
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One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
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A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion.
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To make celestial.
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One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
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Alt. of Celestite
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A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3.
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A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.
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Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.
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A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
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A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
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Alt. of Celestinian
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