celestial
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
celestial/səˈlestiəl/
▶adjective
- 1 positioned in or relating to the sky or outer space.
- 2 belonging or relating to heaven.
– derivatives
celestially adverb.
celestially adverb.
– origin ME: via OFr. from med. L. caelestialis, from L. caelestis, from caelum ‘heaven’.
'celestial' also found in these Oxford entries:
aberration
- absolute magnitude
- almucantar
- altitude
- amplitude
- apparent magnitude
- Aries
- armillary sphere
- aspect
- astro-
- astrology
- astronomy
- astrophysics
- azimuth
- blue shift
- brown dwarf
- celestial equator
- celestial latitude
- celestial longitude
- celestial mechanics
- celestial navigation
- celestial pole
- celestial sphere
- colure
- comet
- culminate
- declination
- Docetism
- dwarf planet
- eclipse
- ecliptic
- emersion
- ephemeris
- equator
- equatorial mount
- equinoctial
- equinoctial point
- equinox
- galactic equator
- heavenly body
- hemisphere
- horizon
- house
- -ial
- immersion
- lambda
- limb
- mag
- meridian
