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archangel1
(ˈɑːkˈeɪndʒəl: see arch-)
Forms: 2– archangel, 4–5 -ell(e, 3 arc, 5–6 ark-awngell, -angel.
[a. OF. archangel, -ele, -le, or perh. ad. L. archangel-us, a. Gr. ἀρχάγγελος (see arch- and angel n.): the OE. translation héah-ęngel survived to 1200. On account of the following a, the prefix in this word remained hard (arc-, ark-) in all the Rom. langs.: Gothic had arkaggilus; in Eng., early spellings occur with arc-, ark-. No satisfactory explanation known of the transferred senses.]
1. An angel of the highest rank. Also fig.
[a1000ælfric Gl. (Wr.) 41/2 Archangelus heah encgel. a1000Blickl. Hom. 147 Micahel se heahengel. c1200Ormin 13512 Hehenngell Gabriæl.] c1175Lamb. Hom. 41 Mihhal þe archangel. c1230Juliana 48 Englene ifere ant arcanglene freond. c1320Cast. Love (Halliw.) 1575 Ne non so bryȝht archangelle. c1440Gesta Rom. i. xliii. 143 To whom Gode sent the archangell Gabrielle. 1528Perkins Profit. Bk. ix. §601 The feast of S. Michael the Ark-angell. 1794Southey Botany Bay Ecl. iv. Wks. II. 88 The Archangel's trump at the last hour. 1853Kingsley Hypatia vi. (1879) 71 Fanatical archangel that she [Hypatia] is.
2. Herb. Herbalists' name:
a. of several species of Dead-Nettle and allied plants (Lamium, Galeopsis, Galeobdolon, Stachys);
b. formerly of the Black Stinking Horehound (Ballota nigra).
[c1000ælfric Gloss., Archangelica, blindnetle. 1440Promp. Parv., Deffe nettylle, Archangelus.] 1551Turner Herbal ii. 7 The iuice of rede archangell scatter[s] away..cancres. 1578Lyte Dodoens 257 Called..in English blacke Horehounde..and of some blacke Archangell. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 145 Against the bitings of dogs..the leaves of black horehound, or archangel. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying Ins. i. xv. 94 Archangel, both with the white and yellow flowers. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Bee, Rub the Place with..Wormwood, Archangel, or other noisome Herbs. 1882Cornh. Mag. Jan. 32 Our English archangels and a few others are yellow.
c. A book-name for Archangelica officinalis and allied plants, as Angelica sylvestris (wild archangel): = angelica 1.
1855A. Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 54 Angelica sylvestris (Wild Archangel). 1884W. Miller Dict. Names Plants, Archangel, Archangelica officinalis.
†3. ? A titmouse. (Cf. F. mesange.) Obs.
c1400Rom. Rose 915 With fynche, with lark, and with archaungelle.
4. A kind of fancy pigeon.
1867W. B. Tegetmeier Pigeons xx. 168 Archangels are prolific. |