Lewis & Short

prae-celsus, a, um, adj., very high or lofty (class.; poet. and late Lat.; cf.: arduus, sublimis, excelsus).

  1. I. Lit.: rupes, Verg. A. 3, 245; Sulp. Sev. Chron. 2, 15, 9.
  2. II. 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.).