a. Obs. [a. F. céleste, or ad. L. cælestis, f. cælum heaven.] Heavenly, celestial.
1. Of or pertaining to the sky; = CELESTIAL 1. † Blue celest: sky-blue [Fr. bleu céleste] (obs.).
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 89. The circulatioun of the sone celes[t].
1549. Compl. Scot., 47. Considir the circlis of the spere celest.
1584. T. Hudson, Judith, IV. in Sylvester’s Du Bartas (1621), 723. Her vtmost robe was colour blew cœlest.
2. Of or pertaining to heaven; = CELESTIAL 2, 3.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 455. Licoure of grace above, a thyng celest.
1549. Compl. Scot., 65. Eftir this sueit celest armonye, tha began to dance.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 145. Augustin observed in Paul … a celeste Eloquence.
