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Celestial vs Terrestrial - What's the difference?

celestial | terrestrial |

Terrestrial is a antonym of celestial.



In mormonism terms the difference between celestial and terrestrial

is that celestial is of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory while terrestrial is of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.

As adjectives the difference between celestial and terrestrial

is that celestial is relating to heaven in a religious sense while terrestrial is of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the Earth or its inhabitants.

As nouns the difference between celestial and terrestrial

is that celestial is an inhabitant of heaven while terrestrial is a ground-dwelling plant.

celestial

English

Alternative forms

* (qualifier)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) celestial, from .

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to heaven in a religious sense.
    • (Milton)
  • Relating to the sky or space.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The twelve celestial signs.
  • (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 citation
    • , 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 citation
    • , 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?}}
    Synonyms
    * (Relating to heaven in a religious sense) divine, heavenly, spiritual
    Derived terms
    * celestial body * Celestial Empire * celestial equator * celestial globe * celestial guidance * celestial horizon * celestial latitude * celestial longitude * celestial navigation * celestial peace * celestial pole * celestial sphere

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inhabitant of heaven.
  • * {{quote-book , year=1913 , author=Horace Coffin Stanton , title=Telepathy of the Celestial World citation
    • , passage=For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch. Scriptures prove that. }}

    Etymology 2

    From Celestial Empire, a formerly used name for China.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 citation
    • , 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.

    • References

    * * * Kingdoms of Glory on LDS.org. ----

    terrestrial

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A ground-dwelling plant.
  • (Terrestrial)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the Earth or its inhabitants.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • Of, relating to, or composed of land.
  • *1997 , New Scientist, issue 2096, Review: Cinderella's house
  • *:Microorganisms are the Cinderellas of terrestrial ecology — the majority of the Earth's biomass, yet barely catalogued.
  • Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitat); not aquatic, etc.
  • (astronomy) Of a planet, being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals; see also terrestrial planet.
  • Concerned with the world or worldly matters.
  • * Young
    • A genius bright and base, / Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims.
  • (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.
  • * {{quote-journal , year=1974 , date=February , title=A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee , journal=Ensign citation
    • , passage=We are now living and obeying celestial laws that will make us candidates for celestial glory; or we are living terrestrial' laws that will make us candidates for ' terrestrial glory; or telestial.}}
  • * {{quote-journal , year=1977 , date=August , author=Bruce R. McConkie , title=A New Commandment: Save Thyself and Thy Kindred! , journal=Tambuli citation
    • , passage=Theirs is an everlasting terrestrial inheritance because they rejected the truth when it was offered to them in mortality.}}
  • (broadcasting) Broadcast using radio waves as opposed to .

    • Synonyms

    * planetary * tellurian, telluric, Terran, terrene * , landly * telluric, rocky * (concerned with the world) earthly, mundane, sublunary, worldly

    Antonyms

    * (living or growing on land) aerial, aquatic, arboreal, epiphytic * aerial * (concerned with the world) celestial, spiritual

    Derived terms

    * extraterrestrial * subterrestrial * superterrestrial * supraterrestrial * terrestrial albedo * terrestrially * terrestrial navigation * terrestrial planet * terrestrial telescope

    Related terms

    * terra * terrace * terracotta * terrain * terrene * terrier * territorial * territory

    References

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