单词 | angelical |
释义 | angelicaladj. Now somewhat archaic. 1. Of or relating to an angel or angels; of the nature of an angel; = angelic adj.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] angelicalc1429 angelic?c1450 angel-like1561 seraphic1632 cherubic1645 angeliferous1837 c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3242 (MED) The comfort aungelicale. 1486 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 54 A place in maner of a heven, of grete joy and Anglicall armony. 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xxiii. 107 Yet haue they nature whiche is angelycall. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 190 That Angelicall birth-Caroll of our blessed Lord. 1788 A. Coyle Collectanea Sacra I. i. 101 Our Saint was favoured by an angelical vision. 1920 J. T. Slattery Dante ‘Central Man of All World’ (1922) 113 The rebel angels..formed according to his conjecture, about a tenth of the angelical host. 1999 A. Versluis Wisdom's Children xii. 151 We also can, the theosophers tell us, see with our ‘inward eyes’ the angelical kingdom. 2. Resembling, characteristic of, or befitting an angel; like that of an angel; = angelic adj.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective] > like an angel or saint angelica1413 angelical1527 saintlikec1580 sainteda1616 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [adjective] > very upliftedc1454 angelical1527 superior1534 trans-spiritualized1683 1527 W. Roye tr. W. Capito Lytle Treat. for Christen Men in D. H. Parker Roye's Exhort. Studye Script. (2000) 64 It is with oute fayle a thinge angelicall to live chaste. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. ij. sig. Vv.viijv/1 We are by baptisme purged into an Angelicall life. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) i. 16 Such Angelical Wits and Judgments, as some attribute to the Hollanders. 1715 C. Johnson Country Lasses i. 9 Mine is the Sweetest most Angelical little Rogue. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 86 A Boy, no better, with his rosy cheeks Angelical. 1997 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Sept. 27 The myth of Mozart the angelical child, the unblemished spirit. 3. a. An epithet given to St Thomas Aquinas; = angelic adj.1 3. Chiefly (and earliest) in angelical doctor (cf. Angelic Doctor n. at angelic adj.1 and n. Compounds). 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 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. iijv [Aquinas] commonly called thangelical doctor, for the subtiltie of his witte. 1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece Pref. 15 That curious Schooleman, whom the Romists terme the Angellicall Doctor. 1785 H. Shuttleworth Lect. Creed Pope Pius IV i. 21 Aquinas, their own angelical doctor, affirms expressly that she was conceived in original sin. 1815 F. A. Cox Life P. Melancthon ii. 57 Who then will dispute..the wisdom..of Pope John XXII. in conferring this distinction [sc. sainthood] upon the angelical Thomas Aquinas? 1855 J. McClintock tr. L. F. Bungener Hist. Council Trent p. xvii Quote the most celebrated Roman doctors—an angelical Aquinas, or a sainted Liguori—and you will be told that their writings are ‘not authoritative’. 2008 N. Huston tr. A. Comte-Sponville Little Bk. Atheist Spirituality 59 The angelical doctor said much the same thing as Saint Augustine: in the kingdom, both faith and hope will have disappeared. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Order of St. Benedict > [noun] > Carthusian Order > member of Carthusianc1394 Chartreuxc1430 angelical1570 Charter friar1686 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 1217/2 Iohn Houghton that angelical Prior of the Charterhouse. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 286 The very Turk would have reverenced..the angelical Carthusians. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > pastor > [adjective] pastoral?a1475 angelical1609 pastorly1616 1609 tr. ‘J. Ursinus’ Romane Conclaue 211 Presentlie he put on the Angelicall vestment. 1678 T. Jordan Triumphs of London 5 Religion,..bearing a Buckler in one Hand,..in the other Hand a Banner on an Angelical staff. 1823 W. Hone Anc. Myst. Described x. 254 On the lamb is mounted a white beautiful seraphim-like creature..reining the lamb by a silver bridle in his left hand, and with his right bearing an angelical staff. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 96 The angelical office of godly pastors. 1879 K. D. Beste tr. I. Le Masson Spiritual Reading for Every Day xxxix. 316 Perform this angelical office mildly and sweetly, not by way of correction, but of inspiration. Compounds Angelical 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; = Angelic Salutation n. at angelic adj.1 and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1593–4 H. Garnet Societie of Rosary x. 116 Of our Lords Praier Christ him selfe is the author. And of the Angelicall salutation the Angell Gabriell and S. Elizabeth. 1608 M. Fotherby Answere Certaine Obiections 18 in Fovre Serm. May not the reading of the Lords praier, or of the angelicall salutation, put men in mind as well of their Pater noster, and their Aue Maria. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Angelical Salutation is called by the Romanists Ave Maria. 1873 Irish Monthly Nov. 295 It will best be described as an Office of the Angelical Salutation—the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, by the Archangel Gabriel, that she has been chosen to be the Mother of God. 2008 W. G. Storey Prayers Christian Consol. 14 The Angelical Salutation..is composed of two quotations from the first chapter of Luke's Gospel..and an add-on from sixteenth-century usage. angelical stone n. Alchemy (now historical) a substance supposed to enable communication with angels.Chiefly referring to a variety of the philosophers' stone described by Elias Ashmole (cf. quot. 1652). The stone mentioned in quot. 1586 was claimed by John Dee to have been brought to him by an angel. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > chemical digestion > philosophers' stone stone1390 minerala1393 ferment1471 egg of philosophersc1484 adropa1550 philosophical stone1581 angelical stone1586 philosophers' stone1590 philosophers' work1612 philosophic stone1647 water stone of the wise men1649 lapis1666 1586 J. Dee Jrnl. 14 Oct. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 445 I had set up Mensam fœderis, with the appurtenances, and had set the Angelical Stone in the frame of Gold. 1652 E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Prolegomena sig. Bv Lastly, as touching the Angelicall Stone, it is so subtill..that it can neither be seene, felt, or weighed. 1844 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 41 322 He [sc. Elias Ashmole] laid down four varieties of the stone in question—to wit, the mineral stone—the vegetable stone—the magical stone—and the angelical stone. 2008 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 69 398 He [sc. Ashmole] described the Angelical stone as above the others; it possessed a divine power, one that allowed them to converse with angels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.c1429 |
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