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Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

To make celestial. [R.]

In a celestial manner.

Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories. Barrow.

Higher than celestial; superangelic.

Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.] Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon.

The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.…

An elevation of mind to things celestial.

A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. Milton.

k; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy. Milton.

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.

s of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere. Nichol.

Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton.

f the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Obliq…

The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.

Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies. Derham.

s of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.