单词 | angelic |
释义 | angelicadj.1n. A. adj.1 1. Resembling, characteristic of, or befitting an angel; like that of an angel; esp. beautiful, sweetly innocent, or morally good. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective] > like an angel or saint angelica1413 angelical1527 saintlikec1580 sainteda1616 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 102 So angelyk was here natyf beaute, That lyk a þing inmortal semed she. c1475 Life St. Anne (Trin. Cambr.) (1928) l. 555 (MED) Thys maner of kepyng..ys fortosey heuynly and aungelike. 1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Kij England is a holy & angelique grounde, blyssed of God. 1639 L. Lawrence tr. San Pedro de Diego Small Treat. betwixt Arnalte & Lucenda 26 The grace Which doth adorne your Angelick face! 1712 A. Pope in Spectator No. 408. As a Man inclines to the angelick or brute Part of his Constitution. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 550 His profligacy and insolence united had been too much even for the angelic temper of Tillotson. 1988 E. Segal Doctors xiii. 188 Linc could not fathom how the nation that had produced such angelic music could also have committed such satanic atrocities. 2001 Teddy Bear Scene Jan. 38/3 It's hard to believe that the angelic Olivia is capable of such cunning behaviour. 2. Of or relating to an angel or angels; of the nature of an angel. Cf. angelical adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] angelicalc1429 angelic?c1450 angel-like1561 seraphic1632 cherubic1645 angeliferous1837 ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 132 (MED) God..sent her the heuenly bode & angelyk sustenaunce. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Lyf St. Wenefryde sig. biiiv This said, the angelyk visyon vanysshed away. 1536 Bp. J. Longland Serm. Good Fryday sig. Iivv We see not that heuenly visions, that swett dremes, nor that angelyke cumforte they [sc. penitents] haue. 1635 T. M. in A. Stafford Femall Glory sig. d2v Th' Angellike Quire did greet their new-borne King. 1791 M. De Fleury Divine Poems & Ess. 124 Angelic voices sung the Savior's birth, And hail'd Messiah. 1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple ii. 24 Angelic messengers conversed with Abraham. 1919 J. N. Figgis Hopes for Eng. Relig. 179 Invocation of saints was done away... Attention was withdrawn from angelic ministries. 1999 K. Sullivan Interrogation Joan of Arc i. 15 The villagers treated the fairy ladies as a third category of supernatural beings, neither angelic nor demonic. 3. An epithet given to St Thomas Aquinas; cf. Angelic Doctor n. at Compounds, angelical adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [adjective] > individual Thomistical1533 angelical1560 Origenical1600 Origenian1661 Origenic1678 angelic1826 Ignatian1832 Thomist1845 Origenistic1853 Origenizing1880 Thomistic1881 Isidorian1882 neo-Thomist1925 1826 J. Alley Vindiciæ Christianæ x. 437 He..becomes as dark and incomprehensible, as..the dreaming disciples of Rhamus, Boehmen, and the angelic Aquinas. 1880 M. M. Kalisch Path & Goal viii. 339 A conceit which would have done honour to the subtle Duns Scotus or the angelic Thomas Aquinas. 1939 Irish Monthly Apr. 280 Are not urbane Horace, angelic Aquinas, cosmic Dante, humane Shakespeare, as truly poets as heroic Homer, tender Virgil and sublime Thompson? 2009 P. Bush tr. J. Goytisolo Juan the Landless i. 10 As angelic St. Thomas of Aquinas says: what is partially corrupted is corruptible in its entirety. B. n. 1. Church History. A member of an ancient heretical sect who worshipped angels. Cf. Angelist n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of angels > practitioner of angelica1555 a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 420 Men, which were called Angelicks, because they worshipped Angels. 1574 R. Bristow Briefe Treat. Plaine Wayes To Rdr. sig. *iiij In the first hundred yeares after Christ, were these false masters aforesaid... In the second hundred,..the Alogians, the Montanistes, the Angelikes. 1689 tr. J. H. Dalhusius Salvation Protestants Asserted 31 Rome does no way approve the Ancients for numbring the Angelics among the Heretics, because they gave Religious Worship to Angels. 1827 J. Garbett Nullity Rom. Faith x. 378 The first angel-worshippers were the heretical sect of the Angelics; then condemned; now restored. 2003 C. Bruschi & P. Biller Texts & Repression Medieval Heresy 4 Here was a principle, that a heresy took its name from an originating author, such as Nicolaites, from an originator called Nicholas; or from a cause, such as the Angelics, because they worshipped angels. 2. A member of the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul, a Roman Catholic order of nuns, founded in 1535 in Milan by Anthony Maria Zaccaria (1502–39). ΚΠ 1737 T. Broughton Bibliotheca Historico-Sacra I. 578 The Angelics were not confined to the cloyster, but went out of their monastery, and accompanied the regular Clercs in their missions. 1870 W. H. Overall Dict. Chronol. 27 Angelics, an order of nuns founded at Milan. 1996 M. J. Schneider tr. G. Zarri in D. Bornstein & R. Rusconi Women & Relig. Medieval & Renaissance Italy 253 After the Council of Trent, those convents of women that pursued a religious life characterized by charitable activity, like the Angelics, were forced back into the channel of traditional cloistered monasticism. 2007 S. Evangelisti Nuns 78 She [sc. Paola Negri] dictated her Spiritual Letters, addressed to her fellow Angelics and their associated Barnabite fathers. Compounds Angelic Doctor n. [after post-classical Latin doctor angelicus (15th cent.); compare earlier angelical doctor (see angelical adj. 3a)] (a name given to) St Thomas Aquinas; cf. sense A. 3, angelical doctor at angelical adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [noun] > individual fathers Angelic Doctor1635 1635 S. Birckbek Protestants Evid. (new ed.) xiii. 42 The famousest of all the schoolemen was Saint Thomas of Aquine, entitled the Angelique Doctor. 1710 in S. Colvil Whiggs Supplication (new ed.) ii. 120 (note) Aquinas..new modell'd the School-Divinity; wherefore he was call'd the Angelick Doctor. 1848 A. Steinmetz Hist. Jesuits III. vii. 38 Ignatius..had expressly imposed upon the disciples, the doctrines of the angelic doctor. 2000 G. A. McCool in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 704/2 The only genuine Thomism was the philosophical theology of the ‘Angelic Doctor’ himself read in its original text. Angelic Salutation n. (also with lower-case initials) Christian Church the words addressed to the Virgin Mary at the Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel (Luke 1:28); (also) the prayer to the Virgin Mary beginning with these words, the Hail Mary or Ave Maria. [Compare Middle French salutation angelique, French salutation angélique (a1481 denoting the Archangel Gabriel's greeting to the Virgin Mary, 1675 denoting the Hail Mary), and also Anglo-Norman salutacion angeline Hail Mary (c1240).] ΚΠ ?c1422 T. Hoccleve Ars Sciendi Mori l. 396 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 193 Gretter ioie & gladnesse I wolde haue of a litil orisoun..As the angelyk salutacioun. 1652 J. Notstock tr. J. Andrés Confusion Muhamed's Sect xi. 195 The Angelick salutation is in the Alcoran, and the words which the Virgin and the Angell had together, as they are in the Gospell. 1792 R. Cumberland Calvary vi. 213 The Virgin Mother of our Lord, By the angelic salutation hail'd. 1852 A. Jameson Legends Madonna p. xxv Towards the end of the tenth century the custom of adding the angelic salutation, the ‘Ave Maria’, to the Lord's prayer, was first introduced. 1991 Independent (Nexis) 9 Mar. 29 He knelt and kissed the rock where Mary received the angelic salutation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). angelicadj.2 Chemistry. Designating certain compounds obtained from angelica, Angelica archangelica; chiefly in angelic acid n. a crystalline unsaturated carboxylic acid obtained from angelica and other plants, typically of the family Apiaceae.Angelic acid is the cis isomer of 2-methyl-2-butenoic acid; C5H8O2; it is an isomer of tiglic acid (see tiglic adj.) and is easily converted to it by heating. Esters of angelic acid have spasmolytic and other physiological effects. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > acids obtained from plants or trees > [noun] > from roots verdous acid1836 virginic acid1837 krameric acid1838 angelic acid1843 ruberythric acid1852 rubianic acid1855 cellulic acid1859 1843 Lancet 27 May 327/2 An analysis has lately been made by M. Buchner of the constituents of angelica root, which is found to comprise, besides an essential oil, a species of wax, a crystallisable resinous matter called angelicine, a peculiar acid termed angelic acid, with a bitter principle, resembling tannin, a gummy extract, and various salts. 1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xxxvi. 362 Crotonic acid occurs in croton oil, and angelic acid in the archangel-root, whilst angelic aldehyde, C5H6O, is contained in the essential oil of chamomile. 1950 Jrnl. Org. Chem. 15 680 (title) The preparation of tiglic and angelic acids and esters. 1992 J. Lawless Encycl. Essent. Oils ii. 80/2 Chamomile, Roman Chamaemelum nobile..Principal constituents Mainly esters of angelic and tiglic acids (approx. 85 per cent), with pinene, farnesol, nerolidol, chamazulene, pinocarvone, cineol, among others. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1n.a1413adj.21843 |
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