▪ I. † ˈcelestine, a. and n.1 Obs.
[a. OF. celestin, ad. L. cælestīn-us, f. cælest-is heavenly: see -ine.]
= celestial a. and n.
| c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 62 A bright hevenly sterre, Monge celestynes reigneng. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. xxvi. xi, Lyke Dyane clere in her spere celestyne. 1509 ― Conv. Swearers 41 Both god and man in Ioy celestyne. |
▪ II. celestine, n.3 Min.
(ˈsɛləstɪn)
Also cælestine, -in.
[named 1798: ? ad. It. celestino sky-blue; cf. celeste.]
A mineral: the same as celestite. Also, formerly applied to a blue alabaster.
| 1804 R. Jameson Syst. Min. I. 606 Celestine has also been found crystallized. 1811 Pinkerton Petral. I. 502 The alabaster called anydrous is of several colours, white, rose, grey, and even blue, which is called celestine, a name now strictly belonging to a kind of strontian. 1815 W. Phillips Outl. Min. & Geol. (1818) 25 Strontian combined with sulphuric acid..has obtained the name of cœlestine from its delicate tint of light blue colour. |