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Swedish
Adjective
cælest (comparative cælestare, superlative cælestast)
- (rare spelling) Obsolete spelling of celest (“celestial”)..
1835, Biographiskt lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenska män, Almquist, Carl Jonas Ludvig, pages 138–139:Det är nemligen ett sträfvande ”efter himmelskt och jordiskt tillika — af cælest sentiment och tillika ren natur.”- Namely, it is a striving "for heavenly and earthly at the same time — of celestial sentiment and at the same time pure nature."
Usage notes
- The etymologically inconsistent spelling cœlest is much more common.