celestify
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Etymology edit
From Latin caelestis (“heavenly”) + -fy.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
celestify (third-person singular simple present celestifies, present participle celestifying, simple past and past participle celestified)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make like heaven.
- Synonym: celestialize
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- we should affirm that all things were in all things, that heaven were but earth celestified, and earth but heaven terrestrified