_Ce'lia (Dame)_, mother of Faith, Hope, and Charity. She lived in the hospice called Holiness. (Celia is from the Latin, _coelum_, "heaven.")--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, i. 10 (1590). CELIA SHAW, a gentle-hearted mountain girl who, learning that her father and his clan intend to "clean out" a family fifteen miles up the mountain, steals out on a snowy night and makes her way to their hut to warn them of their danger. She takes cold on the fearful journey, and dies of consumption.--Charles Egbert Craddock, _In the Tennessee Mountains_ (1884). CÉLIMÈNE (3_syl_.), a coquette courted by Alceste (2 _syl_.) the "misanthrope" (a really good man, both upright and manly, but blunt in behavior, rude in speech, and unconventional). Alceste wants Célimène to forsake society and live with him in seclusion; this she refuses to do, and he replies, as you cannot find, "tout en moi, comme moi tout en vous, allez, je vous refuse." He then proposes to her cousin Eliante (3 _syl_.), but Eliante tells him she is already engaged to his friend Philinte (2 _syl_), and so the play ends.--Molière, _Le Misanthrope_ (1666). "Célimène" in Molière's _Les Précieuses Ridicules_ is a mere dummy. She is brought on the stage occasionally towards the end of the play, but never utters one word, and seems a supernumerary of no importance at all. CELIN'DA, the victim of count Fathom's seduction.--Smollett, _Count Fathom_ (1754). CEL'LIDE (2 _syl_.), beloved by Valentine and his son Francisco. The lady naturally prefers the younger man.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Mons. Thomas_ (1619). CELTIC HOMER _(The)_, Ossian, said to be of the third century. If Ossian lived at the introduction of Christianity, as by all appearances he did, his epoch will be the latter end of the third and beginning of the fourth century. The "Caracul" of Fingal, who is no other than Caracalla (son of Seve'rus emperor of Rome), and the battle fought against Caros or Carausius ... fix the epoch of Fingal to the third century, and Irish historians place his death in the year 283. Ossian was Fingal's son.--_Era of Ossian._ CENCI. Francesco Cenci was a most profligate Roman noble, who had four sons and one daughter, all of whom he treated with abominable cruelty. It is said that he assassinated his two elder sons and debauched his daughter Beatrice. Beatrice and her two surviving brothers, with Lucretia (their mother), conspired against Francesco and accomplished his death, but all except the youngest brother perished on the scaffold, September 11, 1501. It has been doubted whether the famous portrait in the Barberini palace at Rome is really of Beatrice Cenci, and even whether Guido Eeni was the painter. Percy B. Shelley wrote a tragedy called _The Cenci_ (1819). CENIMAG'NI, the inhabitants of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge.--Cæsar, _Commentaries_. CENTAUR (_The Blue_), a human form from the waist upwards, and a goat covered with blue shag from the waist downwards. Like the Ogri, he fed on human flesh.