- praecelsus
- prae-celsus, a, um, adj., very high or lofty (class.; poet. and late Lat.; cf.: arduus, sublimis, excelsus).I.Lit.:II.
rupes,
Verg. A. 3, 245; Sulp. Sev. Chron. 2, 15, 9.—Trop.:Fortuna,
Stat. S. 3, 3, 85.— Comp., Ambros. Fid. 4, 1, 7; id. in Luc. 3, 3, 37 (but Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107, perexcelso, B. and K.).
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.