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celestifying

celestifying is the present participle and gerund of celestify.

Meaning of celestify

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make like heaven.
    • we should affirm that all things were in all things, that heaven were but earth celestified, and earth but heaven terrestrified1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    celestialize

Questions about celestifying

What is celestifying the present participle and gerund of?
Celestifying is the present participle and gerund of celestify.

Words near celestifying in the dictionary

  1. Celestians
  2. celestical
  3. celestified
  4. celestifies
  5. celestify
  6. celestifying
  7. Celestin
  8. Celestina
  9. celestine
  10. celestines
  11. Celestinian

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