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Angelical, Angelic adj.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." "Angelical actions." "The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience."

Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; as, an angelic smile.

Synonyms: angelic, cherubic, seraphic, sweet.

Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; as, angelic benificence.

Synonyms: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted.

Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... said Aristotle, and after Aristotle, the Arab school, and after the Arab school, the angelical school, and after the angelical school, the Sorbonne, and after the ...

— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire

... "Angelical souls, how blessed, how happy should we be, so loving, how might we triumph over the devil, and have ...

— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... The mighty kingdoms angelical, like the thin clouds at dawn, receiving and hailing the first radiance, and singing and sounding forth their blessedness, increase the rising joy in the heart of God, spread wide and utter forth the joy arisen, and in innumerable ...

— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

... us what our body at the resurrection shall be, by showing us in his word what his body was at and after his resurrection. We read that his body after he was risen from the dead, though it yet retained the very same flesh and bones that did hang upon the cross, yet how angelical was it at all times, upon all occasions! He could come in to his disciples with that very body, when the doors were shut upon them. He could at pleasure, to their amazement, appear in the twinkling of an eye in the midst of them. He ...

— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

... singled out, Marred less than man by mortal fall, Her disposition is devout, Her countenance angelical: The best things that the best believe Are in her face so kindly writ The faithless, seeing her, conceive Not only heaven, but hope of it; No idle thought her instinct shrouds, But fancy chequers settled ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

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