Synonyms:
celestial, heavenly
Meaning: of or relating to the sky; "celestial map"; "a heavenly body"
Synonyms:
celestial, heavenly
Meaning: relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven; "celestial beings"; "heavenly hosts"
Synonyms:
celestial, ethereal, supernal
Meaning: of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
Usage examples
For light is common to terrestrial and celestial bodies.
There was something celestial about it, and it came from other worlds.
The book in which this law was published ("On Celestial Harmonies") was dedicated to James of England.
From our ashes springs the phoenix of celestial hope, out of the freedom comes a higher realisation of manhood.
Since that time it has been divided, and a great part of our attention has been given to the more distant celestial bodies.
He then went on to speculate as to the cause of the planets' motion. The old idea was that they were carried round by angels or celestial intelligences.
But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.
A new pride taught me mine ego, and that teach I unto men: no longer to thrust one's head into the sand of celestial things, but to carry it freely, a terrestrial head, which giveth meaning to the earth!
Brooding over this disappointment, the idea of trying solid figures suddenly strikes him. "What have plane figures to do with the celestial orbits?" he cries out; "inscribe the regular solids." And then--brilliant idea--he remembers that there are but five.
Should the king prove a tyrant, for power begets tyranny, serve, love, respect royalty, that Divine right, that celestial spark which makes this dust still powerful and holy, so that we--gentlemen, nevertheless, of rank and condition--are as nothing in comparison with the cold corpse there extended."