celestify

English

Etymology

From Latin caelestis (“heavenly”) + -fy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈlɛs.tə.faɪ/

Verb

celestify (third-person singular simple present celestifies, present participle celestifying, simple past and past participle celestified)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make like heaven.

   Synonym: celestialize

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     we should affirm that all things were in all things, that heaven were but earth celestified, and earth but heaven terrestrified

Synonyms

• celestialize