(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.
Sublime
Definition:
(superl.) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
(superl.) Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons.
(superl.) Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed.
(superl.) Elevated by joy; elate.
(superl.) Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
(n.) That which is sublime; -- with the definite article
(n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
(n.) That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.
(v. t.) To raise on high.
(v. t.) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.
(v. t.) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
(v. t.) To dignify; to ennoble.
(v. i.) To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
(2) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
(3) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(4) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(5) Described herein is a simple, efficient, inexpensive, reproducible, and safe procedure using Peldri II, a proprietary fluorocarbon compound that is solid at room temperature and a liquid above 25 degrees C, as a sublimation dehydrant for processing specimens for SEM.
(6) Sublicons are threadlike structures appearing during sublimation of frozen solutions of small concentrations, containing racemate mixture of amino acids and nucleotides.
(7) It is possible that the sublimation may have potentiated the toxicity of the usually mildly toxic, relatively unsoluble As2O3.
(8) Purification of dithiothreitol from possible endotoxin contamination by vacuum sublimation or chromatography does not abolish the reaction with lysate.
(9) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
(10) Both solution and sublimation techniques were satisfactory for producing coatings of stearic acid.
(11) A truly terrible game hit almost ridiculous lows before being rescued by Jermain Defoe’s sublimely brilliant volleyed winner.
(12) It is shown that sublimation at -100 degrees of erythrocyte membrane suspensions (that had been incubated at pH 5.5 to cause aggregation of the membrane particles) results in progressive and selective sinking of the membrane regions comprised of aggregates of intercalated particles, i.e., that sublimation of water molecules occurs preferentially across these membrane regions.
(13) As ever, the former Liverpool forward’s touch and awareness was sublime, killing the ball dead before looping the ball over Courtois.
(14) The distribution of the perikarya of astrocytes and other glial cells in the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus has been studied in gold chloride-sublimate preparations of rats and of normal and reeler mice, and in plastic embedded material from young adult rats.
(15) Mickelson's play was sublime – he drove the ball straight, he hit his iron shots with a scientist's accuracy and holed putts from all over the place.
(16) It was established that high temperatures of oil sublimation increased the benzopyrene contents and the oil products' blastomogenic activity.
(17) Top Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to design a sublime new station, like the one in nearby Liège, but this costly project won’t be finished until late 2015 at the earliest, so many of the expected two million visitors will have to pick their way around a muddy construction site.
(18) However Murray is playing sublime tennis and he was always in control, never once looking back after he broke for a 2-1 lead in the first set when Dimitrov flashed a forehand wide and then dumped another into the net.
(19) The moral worldview of the devoted actor is dominated by what Edmund Burke referred to as “the sublime”: a need for the “delightful terror” of a sense of power, destiny, a giving over to the ineffable and unknown.
(20) The response of the astroglial population of the dentate gyrus molecular layer to removal of that region's primary afferent was investigated using Cajal's gold sublimate method.