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CE'LATURE, y. [_c<tlatura, Lat.] The art of engrav. 
ing, or cutting in figures. 
CE'LEBES, an ifland in the Eaftern Indian Ocean, 
about 500 miles long, and 200 broad. It is fituated under 
the equator, between the iIIand of Bormeo and the Spice 
lflands. The heat, which would otherwife be exceflive, 
is moderated by the abundant rains which fall, as they 
fay, regularly fome days before and after the full moon. 
The vapours which rife from the mines of gold and copper, 
and thofe which are caufed by the alternate rain and heat, 
would render the air very unwholefome if the north winds 
did not frequently purify it: thcfe winds produce terrible 
tempefts and thunder. In the centre of the ifland are 
mountains, almoft inacceffible, in which are found quarries 
of excellent ftone and marble, mines of gold, copper, and 
tin. Some of the provinces are covered with trees, ebony, 
fandal.and other woods, tifed for dying; carpenters’wood 
16 very common, and bamboos of a fize fit for boats. The 
trees are always green, fruits and flowers in all feafons, 
jafmines, rofes, carnations, and other beautiful flowers, 
grow without culture ; orange-trees and citrons fhade the 
plains, with mangoes, bananas, and other fruits; cotton- 
trees cover the extenfive plains. It produces no fpice ex¬ 
cept pepper ; the inhabitants raife a great number of cat¬ 
tle ; the oxen are larger than thofe of Europe. In the fo- 
refts are large herds of deer, wild hogs, and a great vari¬ 
ety of monkies, large and ferocious ; fome with tails and 
fome without; fome walking upon their four legs, others 
upon two ; the largeft and moil dangerous are the white, 
especially to women, whom they feize and carry away. 
The chief enemies of the monkies are ferpents, which are 
continually in purfuit of them, the larger Swallowing them 
whole ; the fmaller employ art and cunning to enfnare 
them: perched upon a tree, they make a hilling noife, 
which draws the curious apes to find the caufe, when the 
ferpent fuddenly feizes on his prey, and drinks 'his blood. 
Anciently, the inhabitants conlidered the fun and the moon 
as their gods; at prelent, they pretend to be Mahome¬ 
tans. No place is furnifhed with a greater variety of poi- 
fons ; and the natives, it is faid, fhtdy which will have the 
moft fpeedy operation. Their darts, which are dipped in 
poifon, give inftant death. Travellers fay, that, even if a 
limb be cut off immediately after the wound is received, 
it will not lave the patient’s life. The Dutch firfl fettled 
and fortified this ifland, as a barrier again!! all nations. 
The principal articles jvhich the Dutch obtain from this 
colony are rice, gold, ivory, deals, and fandal wood ; cot¬ 
ton, camphor, ginger, long pepper, and pearls. They 
carry thither Scarlet cloth, gold and filver fluffs, linens of 
Cambray, tin, copper, iron, foap, and affafoetida. This 
ifland isalfocalled Macalfar, from a town of that name in 
the fouthern part of the ifland. Lat. 1. 20. N. to 5. 40. S. 
Ion. 118. 40. to 124.15. E. Greenwich. 
To CE'LEBRATE, v. a. [cclebro, Lat.] To praife: to 
commend; to give praife to; to make famous.—The fongs 
of Sion were pfaltns and pieces of poetry that adored or 
celebrated the Supreme Being. - Addifon. To diftinguifh by 
folemn rites; to perform folemnly.—He flew all them 
that were gone to celebrate the fabbath. 2 Maccabees. To 
mention in a let 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. 
CELEBRATION, /. Solemn performance; folemn 
remembrance.—He laboured to drive forrow from her, 
and to haften the celebration of their marriage. Sidney. — 
Praife ; renown, memorial. No more fhall be added in 
this place, his memory deferving a particular celebration, 
than that his learning, piety, and virtue, have been at¬ 
tained by few. Clarenddn. 
CELE'BRIOUS, adj. [ celcber, Lat.] Famous; noted; 
renowned.—The Jews, Jerufalem, and the temple, having 
been always fo celebrious-, yet when, after their captivities, 
they were defpoiled of their glory, even then the Afly- 
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rians, Greeks, and Romans, honoured with facrifices the 
Mof! High God, whom that nation worfhipped. Grew. 
CELE'BRIOUSLY, adv. In a famous manner. 
CELE'BR IOUSNESS, f. Renown; fame. 
CELE'BRITY, J. \_celebritas, Lat.] Public and fplen- 
did tranfadlion.—The manner of her receiving, and the 
celebrity of the marriage, were performed with great mag¬ 
nificence. Bacon. 
CELEN'ZA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Abruzzo Citra: twelve miles eafl 
of Civita Borello. 
CE'LERES, in Roman antiquity, the body-guard be¬ 
longing to the Roman kings, eftablifhed by Ronmlus, and 
compofed of 300 young men, chofen out of the mof! illuf- 
trious Roman families. They alvyays attended near the 
king’s perfon, to be ready to carry his orders, and to exe¬ 
cute them. In war they made the van-guard in the en ¬ 
gagement, which they always began firft'; in retreats they 
made the rear-guard. Though they were a body of horfe, 
yet they ufually difmounted, and fought on foot; then- 
commander was called tribune, or prefect of the Celeres. 
They were divided into three troops of 100 each, com¬ 
manded by a captain called centurio. Their tribune was 
the fecond perfon in the kingdom. 
CE'LERI, or Celery, f. in botany. See Apium. 
CELE'RITY, f. \_celeritas, Lat.] Swiftnefs; fpeed; 
velocity.—Whatever increafeth the denfity of the blood, 
even without increafing its celerity , heats, becattfe a denfer 
body is hotter than a rarer. Arbuthnot .—In mechanics, it 
denotes that affedtion of motion by which any moveable 
body runs through a given fpace in a given time. 
CELESTIAL, adj. [celejlis , Lat.] Heavenly; relating 
to the fuperior regions: 
There flay, until the twelve cclejlial figns 
Have brought about their annual reckoning. Shakefp. 
Heavenly; relating to the blefled ftate : 
Play that fad note 
I nam’d my knell, whilfi I fit meditating 
On that celejlial harmony I go to. Shakefpeare. 
Heavenly, with refpedt to excellence : 
Telemachus, his blooming face, 
Glowing celejlial fweet, with godlike grace. Pope. 
CELESTIAL, f. An inhabitant of heaven: 
Thus affable and mild the prince precedes, 
And to the dome th’ unknown celejlial leads. Pope. 
CELESTIALLY, adv. In a heavenly manner. 
To CELES'TIFY, v. a. [from celejlis, Lat.] To give 
fomething of heavenly nature to any thing. Not ujed .— 
We fliould affirm, that all things were in all things, that 
heaven were but earth terreftrified, and earth but heaven 
celejlified, or that each part above had influence upon its af¬ 
finity below. Brown. 
CELES'TINS, a religious order, fo called from their 
founder, Peter de Meuron, afterwards raifed to the ponti¬ 
ficate under the name of Celeflin V. Meuron, who was 
born at Ifernia, in the kingdom of Naples, in 1215, retired, 
while very young, to a folitary mountain, in order to dedi¬ 
cate himfelf wholly to prayer and mortification. The 
fame'of his piety brought feveral to fee him; fome of 
whom, charmed with his virtues, renounced the world to 
accompany him in folitude. With thefe he formed a kind 
of community, which was approved by Pope Urban IF. in 
1264, and eredted into a diftindl order, called the hermits 
of St. Damien. Peter de Meuron governed this or der 
till 1286, when his love of folitude and retirement induced 
him to quit the charge. In July, 1294; 1 he great reputa¬ 
tion of Iris fandlity raifed him to the pontificate. He then 
took tire name of Celeflin V. and his order that of Celel- 
tins. By his bull he approved their conftitutions, and 
confirmed all their monafleries. After his death, which 
happened in 1296, his order made great progrefs, and ef- 
tabliihed convents all over Europe. 
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