celestify

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin caelestis (heavenly) + -fy.

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Verb

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celestify (third-person singular simple present celestifies, present participle celestifying, simple past and past participle celestified)

  1. (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

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