celestical

English

Etymology

From Latin caelestis +‎ -ical.[1]

Adjective

celestical (comparative more celestical, superlative most celestical)

  1. (obsolete or non-native speakers' English) Synonym of celestial.
    • 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodus 15, annotations, pages 203–204:
      Further Suidas (vocab. Abraham) vvriteth, that at the age of 14. yeares, he admonished his father, not for lucre ſake, to ſeduce men by vvorshipping images of falſe goddes, auouching that there is no other, but the celeſtical God, maker of the whole world.

References

  1. ^ “celestical, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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