Celestial vs False - What's the difference?
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Relating to heaven in a religious sense.
Relating to the sky or space.
* Shakespeare
(Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
* {{quote-journal , year=1974 , date=February , title=A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee , journal=Ensign
, passage=We are now living and obeying celestial' laws that will make us candidates for ' celestial glory.}}
* {{quote-journal , year=1997 , date=November , author=Richard J. Maynes , title=A Celestial Connection to Your Teenage Years , journal=Ensign
, passage=How will you make it through your teenage years spiritually prepared for your celestial' future? How will you connect your ' celestial goals with your everyday life?}}
An inhabitant of heaven.
* {{quote-book , year=1913 , author=Horace Coffin Stanton , title=Telepathy of the Celestial World
, passage=For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch. Scriptures prove that. }}
(obsolete, sometimes, capitalized) A native of China.
* {{quote-book , year=1897 , author=Joseph Llewelyn Thomas , title=Journeys Among the Gentle Japs in the Summer of 1895 , chapter=The North Pacific
, passage=Three celestials died during the voyage, and, in accordance with the contract, their remains were embalmed and carried on to China.}}
(obsolete, slang) by extension, an East Asian person.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between celestial and false
is that celestial is relating to heaven in a religious sense while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun celestial
is an inhabitant of heaven or celestial can be (obsolete|sometimes|capitalized) a native of china.celestial
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* (qualifier)Etymology 1
From (etyl) celestial, from .Adjective
(-)- (Milton)
- The twelve celestial signs.
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Synonyms
* (Relating to heaven in a religious sense) divine, heavenly, spiritualDerived terms
* celestial body * Celestial Empire * celestial equator * celestial globe * celestial guidance * celestial horizon * celestial latitude * celestial longitude * celestial navigation * celestial peace * celestial pole * celestial sphereNoun
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Etymology 2
From Celestial Empire, a formerly used name for China.Noun
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References
* * *Kingdoms of Gloryon LDS.org. ----
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(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}