What's the difference between celestial and divine?

Celestial


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of heaven.
  • (n.) A native of China.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
  • (2) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
  • (3) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
  • (4) In contrast, it becomes more than 70% of axial length in Chinese Black Moors and Celestials.
  • (5) The US space agency's Opportunity rover has clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, according to Nasa .
  • (6) The Celestial goldfish is considered to be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
  • (7) The term originated on forums for discussing the game Kerbal Space Program, a gruellingly difficult simulation which tasks players with building spaceships and getting them to orbit (and, eventually, landing on other celestial bodies).
  • (8) And it allowed us to add to those celestial bodies too, heralding the space age.
  • (9) The surrounding hills are relatively low, and a great dome of sky hangs over Brodgar, perfect for watching the setting and rising of the sun, moon and other celestial objects.
  • (10) There was talk, too, of Serbian history, and its people's long and "celestial" struggle.
  • (11) We’ve been looking at Stonehenge from a modern, earth-bound perspective.” “All the great raised altars of the past suggest that the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth,” he went on.
  • (12) Air, representing ultrasonic energy as a celestial entity, became bird-god, Red-bird.
  • (13) His voice and acoustic guitar were complemented by what seemed like a celestial dawn chorus of birds and I thought he must be singing to us from another dimension.
  • (14) In a celestial touch typical of Soleri’s designs, the area behind the stage is fitted with reclining steps, angled upwards for gazing at the stars.
  • (15) By looking at the movement of Mars, Kepler had calculated that planets orbited the sun in elliptical paths and, in a kind of celestial clockwork, his three laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to work out the position of the planets in the future based on data from past records.
  • (16) Their standards are high but here they met opponents who produced celestial football.
  • (17) They weren’t symbols of celestial bodies but forces for permanence on earth.
  • (18) Since similar goldfish do not show these changes, however, the Celestial goldfish may be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
  • (19) That work prompted researchers to test the idea by reconstructing celestial impacts in the laboratory.
  • (20) "If I could buy one piece, I'd buy the Celestial Bonnet, the five rings light installation by Stephen Jones and Cerith Wyn Evans," says Caroline Rush.

Divine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
  • (a.) Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
  • (a.) Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
  • (a.) Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies.
  • (a.) Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
  • (a.) Relating to divinity or theology.
  • (a.) One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
  • (a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
  • (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
  • (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage.
  • (v. t.) To render divine; to deify.
  • (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
  • (v. i.) To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
  • (v. i.) To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
  • (2) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
  • (3) Back then they claimed a divine right to rule over Afghanistan.
  • (4) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
  • (5) As Labour has no real polices that I can divine, the idea of making it less testosterone-driven somehow interested me.
  • (6) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (7) Baum (a surgeon), Bass (a psychiatrist), Whitehorn (a journalist), and Campbell (a professor of divinity) comment on the case as presented and on three hypothetical complicating situations involving the girl's request for plastic surgery to please her abusive father, the possibility of pregnancy, and physical injury from sexual assault.
  • (8) It's almost like a divinely inspired Hemingway writing in those parts.
  • (9) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
  • (10) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
  • (11) "But North Korea is not moving towards a collective system: it's all about the one leader … It's the divine right of Kims."
  • (12) A poor citizen can’t even find one kilogramme of rice on the street,” he said, arguing that the country’s rulers would face divine judgment for what they were doing to the poor.
  • (13) Everyone knew that if he'd wanted to he could have become professor of divinity at St Andrews, but academia was too dry for him.
  • (14) On 15 September, business leaders from Bridgeport, Connecticut – a down-at-heel port town on Long Island Sound - gathered just outside town in the Friendship Baptist Church to pray for divine intervention in a matter of business.
  • (15) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
  • (16) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
  • (17) Fuelled by latent ambition (and maybe a bit of that coke), Joan – with the help of some divine Cosgrovian intervention – decided she could turn her hand to producing ads.
  • (18) I'd get it from a shop called Hanna in Beirut – just divine.
  • (19) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
  • (20) Its method permits access to the subjective, individual aspects of the development of belief and of the relationship to the divinity, as well as to the critical moments of their developmental reorganization.