Celestial vs Rare - 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.
(cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
* Dryden
Very uncommon; scarce.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= (label) Thin; of low density.
(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
(obsolete) early
* Chapman
Celestial is a related term of rare.
As adjectives the difference between celestial and rare
is that celestial is relating to heaven in a religious sense while rare is (cooking|particularly meats) cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense) or rare can be very uncommon; scarce or rare can be (obsolete) early.As a noun celestial
is an inhabitant of heaven or celestial can be (obsolete|sometimes|capitalized) a native of china.As a verb rare is
(us|intransitive) to rear, rise up, start backwards.celestial
English
Alternative forms
* (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
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rare
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (UK)Adjective
(en-adj)- New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
Synonyms
* (cooked very lightly) sanguinaryAntonyms
* (cooked very lightly) well doneDerived terms
* medium-rareEtymology 2
From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .Adjective
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Synonyms
* (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommonAntonyms
* (very uncommon) commonDerived terms
* rare bird * rare earth mineralEtymology 3
Variant of rear .Verb
(rar)- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
Usage notes
* (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.Etymology 4
Compare rather, rath.Adjective
(en adjective)- Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.