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Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood. [R.]

Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.

Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. "Celestial spirits." "Celestial light," Milton. Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. -- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by he…

Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential elemen…

Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also Keltic.]

Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.

Of or pertaining to a cemetery. "Cemeterial cells." [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to dinner or supper. [R.] The Romans washed, were anointed, and wore a cenatory garment. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to a cenobite.

a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Spesifically: of or pertaining the centigrade thermometer; as, 10° centigrade (or 10° C.). Centigrade thermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the point indicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between that and the point ind…

ing to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a name giv…

Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.

Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon. [R.]

Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds. [R.] Holland.

Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior. Cephalic index (Anat.), the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients…

Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

Pertaining to the bone, or carts, large, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. -- n.