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Angelical

adjective
1.
Of or relating to angels.  Synonym: angelic.
2.
Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub.  Synonyms: angelic, cherubic, seraphic, sweet.  "A cherubic face" , "Looking so seraphic when he slept" , "A sweet disposition"
3.
Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint.  Synonyms: angelic, beatific, sainted, saintlike, saintly.  "A beatific smile" , "A saintly concern for his fellow men" , "My sainted mother"






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"Angelical" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... themselves, then they raced through the Paternoster, the Angelical Salutation, and the Creed, all in Latin; of course without the faintest idea of any meaning. They then repeated a short prayer in English, entreating the Virgin, their guardian angels, and their patron saints, ...
— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt

... idoled her like Pygmalion, they fall down and worship her.[222] Psyche, thou hast laid a hard task upon my shoulders to invent at every one's ask. Were it not that I refresh my dulness once a day with thy most angelical presence, 'twere impossible for me to ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... not, if it were an angelical Soul: And there is no Difference between an Angel and a human Soul, but that the Soul of a Man was formed to act a human Body compos'd of natural Organs; and as the Soul of a Beetle will move nothing but the Body of a Beetle, an Angel was not made to animate a Body, but to be capable ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus



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