Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CE-LES'TI-FI-ED, pp.

Made heavenlike.

CE-LES'TI-FY, v.t.

To communicate something of a heavenly nature to any thing. [Not used.] – Brown.

CE-LES'TI-FY-ING, ppr.

Making heavenlike.

CEL'ES-TIN, or CEL'ES-TINE, n.

In mineralogy, native sulphate of strontian, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. – Ure.

CEL'ES-TINS, n.

A religious order, so named from Pope Celestin. They have ninety-six convents in Italy, and twenty-one in France. They rise two hours after midnight to say matins. They eat no flesh except when sick, and fast often. Their habit is a white gown, a capuche, and black scapulary. – Encyc.

CE'LI-AC, a. [L. cœliacus; Gr. κοιλιακος, from κοιλια, the belly.]

Pertaining to the lower belly, or intestines. – Arbuthnot.

CE-LIB'A-CY, n. [L. cœlebs, an unmarried person; cœlibatus, a single life.]

An unmarried state; a single life. It is most frequently if not always applied to males, or to a voluntary single life. They look on celibacy as an accursed state. – Spectator.

CEL'I-BATE, n.

A single life; celibacy; chiefly used when speaking of the single life of the Popish clergy. – Encyc.

CE-LID-OG'RA-PHY, n.

A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.

CELL, n. [L. cella; Ir. ceall; Sp. celda; Port. and It. cella; D. kelder, a cellar; G. keller; Sw. kellare; Dan. kelder; W. cell. It has the elements of the L. celo, to conceal, and of the English hold.]

1. A small or close apartment, as in a prison, or a bath.
2. A cottage; a cave; a small or mean place of residence. – Prior.
3. A small cavity or hollow place, variously applied; as, the cells of the brain; the cells of a honey-comb, &c.
4. In botany, a hollow place in a pericarp, particularly in a capsule, in which seeds are lodged. According to the number of these cells, pericarps are called unilocular, bilocular, trilocular, &c. – Martyn.
5. In anatomy, a little bag, or bladder, containing fluid or other matter; as, the adipose cells, containing fat. – Encyc.
6. A religious house. – Chaucer.

CEL'LA, n.

In architecture, a chapel, or private part of temple; the interior or sanctuary. – Elmes.

CEL'LAR, n. [L. cellarium. See Cell.]

A room under a house or other building, used as a repository of liquors, provisions, and other stores for a family.

CEL'LAR-AGE, n.

The room for a cellar; a cellar, or cellars.

CEL'LA-RET, n.

A case of cabinet work, for holding bottles of liquors. [Local.]

CEL'LAR-IST, or CEL'LAR-ER, n.

An officer in a monastery who has the care of the cellar, or the charge of procuring and keeping the provisions; also, an officer in chapters, who has the care of the temporals, and particularly of distributing bread, wine, and money to canons, on account of their attendance in the choir. – Encyc.

CEL-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. cella, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing or producing cells. – Encyc.

CEL'LU-LAR, a. [L. cellula, a little cell.]

Consisting of cells, or containing cells. – Kirwan. The cellular membrane, in animal bodies, is composed of an infinite number of minute cells, communicating with each other. It invests every fiber, and seems to be the medium of connection between all parts of the body. The cells serve as reservoirs for fat. – Encyc.

CEL'LU-LAR, n.

A plant having no spiral vessels, and which is flowerless. – Lindley.

CEL'LU-LA-TED, a.

Formed with cells. – Caldwell.

CEL-LU-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. cellula, a little cell, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing or producing little cells. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.

CELS'I-TUDE, n. [L. celsitudo.]

Highth; elevation. – Chaucer.

CELT, n.

One of the primitive inhabitants of the South of Europe. [See Celtic.]

CELT-I-BE'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Celtiberia, and its inhabitants, the Celtiberi, or Celts of the Iberus, a river in Spain.

CELT-I-BE'RI-AN, n.

An inhabitant of Celtiberia.

CELT'IC, a. [W. celt, a covert or shelter; celtiad, one that dwells in a covert, an inhabitant of the forest, a Celt; celu, to conceal, L. celo; Gr. Κελτοι, Celts.]

Pertaining to the primitive inhabitants of the South and West of Europe, or to the early inhabitants of Italy, Gaul, Spain, and Britain. We say, Celtic nations; Celtic customs; Celtic origin.