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Show C E'L tinues moft part of the year. Maundrely in hi "T'ravels, fays, he meafured one of the largeft cedar on Mount Libanus, and found it to be twelve yard fix inches in circumference, and found. At abou five or fix yards from,the ground, it was divide into five linibs, each of which was equal to a grea The wood of this famous tree is accounte tree proof againft the putrefation of animal bodies The faw-duft is thought to be one of the fecret ufed by the mountebanks, who pretefid to hav the embalmin myftery to yield an oil, whic This wood is alf fai is famous for prefervin books and writings; and the wood is thought b Bacon to continue above a thoufand years found Miller T muft yield my body to the earth Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge Whofe arms gave fhelter to the princely eagle Under whofe fhade the ramping lion {lept Whofe top branch overpeer'd Jove's fpreading tree And kept low fhrubs from winter's pow'rful wind Shakefpeare Ce'priNg. adj. [cedrinus, Lat.] Of o belonging to the cedar tree 7o CEIL. w. a. [c@lo, Lat.] To overlay or cover, the inner roof of a building And the greater houfe he ceiled with fir-tree which he over-laid with fine gold 2. Chronicles How will he, from his houfe ceiled with cedar be content with his Saviour's lot, not to hav where to lay his head Csiring roof 7 /o [from ce/. Decay of Picty The inne Varaith makes ceilings not only fhine, but lat Bacon And now the thicken'd fl Like a dark ceiling ftood; down rufh'd the rai Impetuous Miltow's Paradife Loft So when the fun by day, or moon by night Strike on the polifh'd brafs their trembling light Th An No An glitt'ring fpecies here and there divide caft their dubious beams from fide to fide on the walls, now on the pavement play to the ceiling flath the glaring day Dryden CE'LANDINE A plant n /o [chelidoncum Lat. The fwallows ufe celandine, the linnet euphragia More Ce'LATURE. 7. /. [c#latura, Lat.] Th art of engraving, or cutting in figures 90 CE'LEBRATE «. a [celebro, Lat. 1. To praife; to commend ; to give praif to; to make famous The fongs of Sion were pfalms and pieces o poetry, that adored or celebrated the Supreme Being Addifon I would have him read over the celebrated work of antiquity, which have ftood the teft of fo man different ages Addifon 2. Todiftinguith by {olemn rites ; to perform folemnly He {lew all them that were gone to celebrate th fa bath 2 Maccabees On the feaft day, the father cometh forth, afte divine fervice, into a large room, where the feaf is celebrated Bacon 3. To mention in a fet or folemn manner whether of joy or forrow This paufe of pow'r tis Ireland's hour to mourn While England celebrates your fafe return. Dryden Cerepra‘rion, # /. [from celebrate. 1. Solemn performance ; folemn remembrance He laboured to drive forrow from her, and t baften the celebration of their marriage Sidncy He fhall conceal it While you are willing it fhall come to note What time we will our celebration keep According to my birth Shake[peare During the celebration of this holy facrament, yo attend carneftly to what is done by the prieft Yo" CE CE Taylo 2, Praife; renown memorlal and eart No more thall be added in this place, his memory deferving a particular celebration, than tha his learning, piety, and virtue, have been attaine by few Clarendon Some of the ancients may be thought fometime to have ufed a lefs number of letters, by the cels bration of thofe who have added to their alphabet Holder's Elements of Speech CeLe'BrIOUS adj. [celeber, Lat. mous ; renowned ; noted Fa Not in ufe The Jews, Jerufalem, and the Temple, havin been always fo cclebrious; yet when, after thei captivities, they were defpoiled of their glory, eve then the Aflyrians, Greeks, and Romans, honoured with facrifices the Moft High God; who that nation worfhipped Grew Cere'sriovsLy adw. [from celebrious. In a famous manner CeLE'BRI0OUSNESS, 7. /. [from celebrious. Renown; fame CevLe'BRITY. u./. [celebritas, Lat.] Publick and fplendid tranfa&ion The manner of her receiving, and the celebrit of the marriage, were performed with great magnificence Bacon. Cerp'rrack #. /. A fpecies of parfley it is alfo called turncp rooted celery CeLE'RITY. #. [ [coleritas, Lat.] Swiftnefs ; {peed ; velocity We very well fee in them wh thus plead, wonderful celerity of difcourfe : for, perceiving a the firft but only fome caufe of fufpicion, an fear left it fhould be evil, they are prefently, i one and the felf-fame breath, refolved, that wha beginning foever it had, there is no poflibility i thould be good Hooker His former cuftom and pra&ice was ever full o fowardnefs and ce/erity to make head againft them Bacon Thus, with imagin'd wings, our fwift fcene fiics In motion with no lefs celerit Than that of thought Shakefpeare ‘Fhree things concur to make a percuflion great the bignefs, the denfity, and the celerity of the bod moved. D;g[)y Whatever encreafeth the denfity of the blood even without encreafing its celerity, heats a denfer body is hotte Cr'Lery n. / which {fee than a rarer becauf Arbuthnot on Aliments fpecie of par/ey CELE'STIAL. adj. [celfis, Lat. 1. Heavenl regions relatin to th fuperiou Have brought about their annual reckoning. Shas The ancients commonly applied celeflial deferiptions of other climes to their own Brown's Vulgar Errours 2. Heavenly ; relating to the blefied ftate Play that fad not I nam'd my knell, whilt T fit meditatin On that ce/eftial harmony I go to Shakefpeare with refpeét to excellence Canft thou pretend defire, who zeal inflam' To worfhip, and a pow'r celftial nam'd Telemachus, his bloomy fac Glowing celeftial fweet, with godlike grace CerLre'sTiaL. . /£ [from the adj. inhabitant of heaven Dyyden Pope A Thus affable and mild the prince precedes And to the dome th' unknown celefial leads. Pope CeLE'sTIALLY. adv. [from celefial] I a heavenly manner Zo CELE'STIFY. v. 4. [from celeftis, Lat. To give {fomething of heavenly natur to any thing Not ufed W things fhoul celeffified, ot that eac par above had influenceupon its affinity below Brown's Vulgar Errouys Ce'vrack adj. [xonia, the belly. Re lating to the lower belly Th blood movin flowly throug the celizc and mefenterick arteries, produces complaints Arbuthnot o Aliments Ce'visacy. = [ [from czlebs Single life; unmarried fate I can attribut their number Lat. to nothing bu their frequent marriages ; for they look on celibac as an accurfed ftate, and generally are marrie before twenty Spettator By teaching them how to carry themfelves i their relations of hufbands and wives, parents an children, they have, without queftion, adorned th gofpel, glorified God, and benefited man, muc more than they could have done in the devoutef and ftricte cclibacy Alterbury Ce'L1BATE. 7. /. [c@libatus, Lat.] Singl life The males oblige themfelve then multiplication is hindered 7z. [ce/[d to celibate an Graunt Lat. 1. A fmall cavity or hollow place The brain contains ten thoufand ce//s In each fome a&ive fancy dwells Prior How bees for ever, though a monarch reign Their fep'rate cells and properties maintain. Pope 2. The cave or little habitation of a religious perfon Befides, the did intend confeflio At Patricl's ce// this ev'n 5 and there the was not Shakefpeare Then did religion in a lazy c2// In empty, airy contemplations dwell Denban 3. A {mall and clofe apartment in a prifon 4. Any fmall place of refidence; a cot tage Mine éyes he clos'd, but open left the cel Of fancy, my internal fight Milton's Par. Loft For ever in this humble ce/ Let thee and I together dwell In cottages and lowly cell Prior True piety negle@ed dwells Till call'd to heav'n, its native feat Where the good man alone is great 5. Little bags or bladders, wher Someraile fluids or matter of difterent forts, are lodged common both to animals and plants Quincy There ftay, until the twelve celefial fign 3. Heavenly but heave affirm, that all things were in al that heaven were but earth terveftrificd Cerrar. # under greund are repofited [cella, Lat. A plac where ftores and liquor If this fellow had lived in th he would, for his punithment, hav to the bottom of a ee/lar during hi Peackar time of Cato been confine life on Drawing CE'LLARAGE. #. /. [from cellar.] Th part of the building which makes th cellars Come on, you hear this fellow in the celldragz. goo -f:\l‘!z.5.~;'1,>flxv'c afcent makes a houfe wholefome gives opportunity for cellarage Ce'Lrar1ST an timer's Hufbandry 2 [cellarius Lat. butler in a religious houfe Ce'rrurar. adj. [cellula, Lat. ing of little cells or cavities Th Dig Confift The urine, infinuating itfelf amongft the neighbouring mufcles, and cel/ular membranes, deftroye four Ce'Ls1TUDE Sharp's Surgery /. [celfitudo, Lat.]Height 2 CE'MENT. . /. [cementum, Lat. 1. The matter with which two bodies ar made to cehere, as mortar or glue Q You |