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angelical, a.|ænˈdʒɛlɪkəl|
Also 6 aungellical, 6–7 angelycall, etc.
[f. angelic + -al1: see -ical.]
1. Of or pertaining to angels; of angel kind. arch.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxiii. ii, Yet have they nature whych is angelycall. 1577St. Aug. Manuell, This aungellical ditie: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hostes. 1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 146 Our Paradisian Bard introduces Eve dressing of a Sallet for her Angelical Guest. 1718Chambers Cycl. s.v., The Angelical Salutation is called by the Romanists Ave Maria. a1834Coleridge Notes Theol. & Pol. 364 The mighty kingdoms angelical..sounding forth their blessedness.
2. Angel-like, resembling an angel; hence, of superhuman nature, intelligence, holiness, disposition, beauty, etc.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 569 We are by baptisme purged into an Angelicall life. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. ii. 75 Beautifull Tyrant, fiend Angelicall: Rauenous Doue-feather'd Rauen. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 31 The Angellicall Innocency of God's Owne Mother. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. i. (1691) 16 Such Angelical Wits and Judgments, as some attribute to the Hollanders. 1805Wordsworth Prel. iii. (1850) 67 A boy, no better, with his rosy cheeks Angelical. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) II. 20 Angelical indeed was his temper.
3. An attribute of the Carthusians, and of Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual as an angel.
c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 286 The very Turk would have reverenced..the angelical Carthusians. 1560J. Daus Sleidane's Comm. 3 b, [Aquinas] commonly called thangelical doctor, for the subtiltie of his witte. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 378 The Angelical Doctor had systematized it.
4. Of or pertaining to a divine messenger, or pastor. Cf. angel n. 2 and 3. rare.
1678in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 524 Religion in a sable robe..bearing a buckler in one hand..in the other hand a banner on an angelical staff. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 96 The angelical office of godly pastors.
5. angelical stone: a fancy of the alchemists.
1652Ashmole Theat. Chem. Brit. Prol. 8 Lastly, as touching the Angelicall Stone, it is so subtill..that it can neither be seene, felt, or weighed. |
