What's the difference between celestial and sublunary?

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.

Sublunary


Definition:

  • (a.) Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly.
  • (n.) Any worldly thing.

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