seraphicadj.n.

/səˈrafɪk/

Forms: Also 1600s seraphique, 1600s–1700s seraphick, 1700s serafic.

Etymology: < ecclesiastical Latin seraphicus, < seraph-im : see seraphim n. Compare French séraphique, Spanish seráfico, Portuguese seraphico, Italian serafico.

A. adj.

1. Of or relating to the seraphim.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective]

angelicalc1429

angelic?c1450

angel-like1561

seraphic1632

cherubic1645

angeliferous1837

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] > belonging to hierarchy > of or relating to seraphim

seraphical1568

seraphic1632

1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour v. i. sig. K3 Seraphique Angels Clap their celestiall wings in heavenly plaudits.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 794 The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 83 This Supposition..places him [the Devil] beneath the Dignity of his Seraphick Original.

1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 275 A being big with hope..of adding melody to seraphic choirs, in ceaseless Hallelujahs to their Eternal King.

1852 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders (ed. 2) 238 Seven beautiful seraphic or allegorical figures.

a. Of attributes: resembling what pertains to the seraphim; worthy of a seraph; ecstatically adoring.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] > belonging to hierarchy > of or relating to seraphim > worthy of

seraphic1659

1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 9 This Love I have taken the freedome to style Seraphick Love, borrowing the name from..those nobler Spirits of the Cælestiall Hierarchie, whose Name..expresses them to be of a flaming Nature.

1683 J. Norris Idea of Happiness 35 There is a more peculir Acceptation of the Love of God proper to this place. And it is that which we call Seraphic. By which I understand..that Love of God which is the effect of an intense Contemplation of him.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 2 Nor did his Arts in vain weak Man assail, His false Seraphick Tongue, and Charms prevail.

a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 191 Seraphick Ardour circling in each Vein, The Majestatick Presence in the Brain.

1778 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 336 Mr. Mudge..had a most seraphic finger for the harpsichord.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii. 65/1 On the thick Hyperborean, cherubic reasoning, seraphic eloquence were lost.

1846 T. De Quincey Notes on Gilfillan's Gallery Lit. Portraits in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 29 Many people remarked something seraphic in the expression of his features.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cvii. 167 Seraphic intellect and force To seize and throw the doubts of man.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 133 Dinah's seraphic gentleness of expression.

1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 97 Her voice was sweet..Her singing quite seraphic.

1884 W. S. Lilly in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 263 That religious romanticism which paints for us a mediæval period full of seraphic sweetness.

†b. ? Concerned with sublime objects. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: Dunstan (1898) I. 243 Meredith Lloyd tells me that, three or 400 yeares ago, chymistry was in a greater perfection, much, then now; their proces was then more seraphique and universall: now they looke only after medicines.

a. Resembling a seraph, either in beauty or in fervour of exalted devotion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] > specifically of persons

faireOE

sheenOE

brightOE

(the) sheenc1275

belc1314

pertc1330

quaintc1330

gaya1350

beau1399

formose14..

clearc1420

beautiful1509

venust1513

venereal1598

rare-beautied?1614

venerial1661

seraphic1765

nymphish1789

hyacinthine1847

bloomful1890

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] > belonging to hierarchy > of or relating to seraphim > resembling

seraphic1807

1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) III. i. 71 That seraphic dame, Mrs. Rowe, also painted.

1807 G. Crabbe Sir Eustace Grey in Poems 220 Her Morals [shew'd], the seraphic Saint.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iv. x. 264 That seraphic being whose lustre even now haunts my vision.

1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xiii Seraphic saints, and gorgeous scenes by Tintoret.

b. Of discourse, actions, appearance: showing ecstasy of devout contemplation.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [adjective]

frenetic?c1550

seraphical1581

frenetical1588

ecstatical1600

zealot1641

ecstatic1645

rapturous1656

vowed1665

seraphica1668

synagoguish1690

frantic?1715

solid1740

ecstasied1787

religionistic1842

a1668 W. Davenant Play-house to Let i. (1673) 76 A spiritual Musician too With his seraphick Colloquies exprest In stilo recitativo.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 24 May (1976) IX. 211 A very good and seraphic kind of sermon, too good for an ordinary congregation.

1884 Punch 18 Oct. 191/1 The seraphic look of personal affection that mantled his brow.

B. n.

†1.

a. [= ecclesiastical Latin seraphicus.] A Franciscan friar.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun]

Friar Minorc1230

Grey friara1350

minor?c1450

Sister Minor1473

Franciscan1534

Minorite1537

seraphic1680

seraphic friar1826

Minorist1836

1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xx. 252 They are commanded to wear the Coat and Hood; (for so say the Seraphicks).

b. Allusively applied in the sense of zealot.

ΚΠ

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα ii. xxxii. 256 Many high Seraphicks and supercilious Separatists.

2. seraphics n. rapturous moods or discourses.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > impassioned

wildfirea1400

storm1602

mouth-grenado1647

seraphics1709

mouth-grenade1714

ecstatics1821

stem-winder1875

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] > rapturous moods or discourses

seraphics1709

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a discourse or lecture > rapturous discourses

seraphics1709

1709 J. Swift & J. Addison Tatler No. 32 To hear her talk Seraphicks, and run over Norris, and Moor, and Milton.

1789 C. Smith Ethelinde I. viii. 205 And the angel will descend from her seraphics.

Compounds

Special collocations:

seraphic doctor n. a title given to St. Bonaventura (in Spain also popularly to St. Teresa).

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Seraphick In the Schools, St. Bonaventure is call'd The Seraphic Doctor, from his abundant Zeal and Fervour.

1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. v. 153 The seraphic doctor observes that [etc.].

1894 Mrs. G. C. Graham S. Teresa I. iv. 179 (note) Teresa, by a definitive decree of the Tribunal of the Rota, is formally declared a Doctor of the Church. The ‘seraphic doctor’, the antonomasia by which she is as often as not referred to in Spain, relates to this, and not to the Doctor's degree bestowed upon her, after her death, by the University of Salamanca.

Seraphic Father n. a title given to St. Francis.

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Seraphick St. Francis, the Founder of the Cordeliers and Franciscans, is called the Seraphic Father, in Memory of a Vision he saw on Mount Alverna,..when, falling into an Ecstasy, he saw a Seraph glide rapidly from Heaven upon him; which impress'd on him certain Stigmata or Marks.

1884 Tablet 11 Oct. 592/1 The Feast of the Seraphic Father St. Francis was celebrated with great solemnity.

seraphic friar n. a Franciscan.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun]

Friar Minorc1230

Grey friara1350

minor?c1450

Sister Minor1473

Franciscan1534

Minorite1537

seraphic1680

seraphic friar1826

Minorist1836

1826 R. Southey Lett. to C. Butler 514 The Seraphic and Cherubic friars.

seraphic habit n.

ΚΠ

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 143 Those who take that habit, which they call Seraphick, are not to be numbered among Men, but are become Angels.

seraphic hymn n. the Sanctus (see Isaiah. 6:3).

seraphic order n.

ΚΠ

1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxiv. 418 Of the Mendicants the most numerous is the Serafic, or Franciscan order.

Derivatives

seˈraphicness n. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > seraphim > seraph > appearance of

seraphicness1727

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Seraphickness, the being of the seraphick Nature.

1888 ‘W. Châteauclair’ Young Seigneur 71 No romantic seraphicness glowed upon her features.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	seraphic
释义	seraphicadj.n. /səˈrafɪk/ Forms: Also 1600s seraphique, 1600s–1700s seraphick, 1700s serafic. Etymology: < ecclesiastical Latin seraphicus, < seraph-im : see seraphim n. Compare French séraphique, Spanish seráfico, Portuguese seraphico, Italian serafico. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to the seraphim. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] angelicalc1429 angelic?c1450 angel-like1561 seraphic1632 cherubic1645 angeliferous1837 the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] > belonging to hierarchy > of or relating to seraphim seraphical1568 seraphic1632 1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour v. i. sig. K3 Seraphique Angels Clap their celestiall wings in heavenly plaudits. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 794 The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat. View more context for this quotation 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 83 This Supposition..places him [the Devil] beneath the Dignity of his Seraphick Original. 1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 275 A being big with hope..of adding melody to seraphic choirs, in ceaseless Hallelujahs to their Eternal King. 1852 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders (ed. 2) 238 Seven beautiful seraphic or allegorical figures. 2. a. Of attributes: resembling what pertains to the seraphim; worthy of a seraph; ecstatically adoring. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] > belonging to hierarchy > of or relating to seraphim > worthy of seraphic1659 1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 9 This Love I have taken the freedome to style Seraphick Love, borrowing the name from..those nobler Spirits of the Cælestiall Hierarchie, whose Name..expresses them to be of a flaming Nature. 1683 J. Norris Idea of Happiness 35 There is a more peculir Acceptation of the Love of God proper to this place. And it is that which we call Seraphic. By which I understand..that Love of God which is the effect of an intense Contemplation of him. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 2 Nor did his Arts in vain weak Man assail, His false Seraphick Tongue, and Charms prevail. a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 191 Seraphick Ardour circling in each Vein, The Majestatick Presence in the Brain. 1778 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 336 Mr. Mudge..had a most seraphic finger for the harpsichord. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii. 65/1 On the thick Hyperborean, cherubic reasoning, seraphic eloquence were lost. 1846 T. De Quincey Notes on Gilfillan's Gallery Lit. Portraits in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 29 Many people remarked something seraphic in the expression of his features. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cvii. 167 Seraphic intellect and force To seize and throw the doubts of man. View more context for this quotation 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 133 Dinah's seraphic gentleness of expression. 1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 97 Her voice was sweet..Her singing quite seraphic. 1884 W. S. Lilly in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 263 That religious romanticism which paints for us a mediæval period full of seraphic sweetness. †b. ? Concerned with sublime objects. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: Dunstan (1898) I. 243 Meredith Lloyd tells me that, three or 400 yeares ago, chymistry was in a greater perfection, much, then now; their proces was then more seraphique and universall: now they looke only after medicines. 3. a. Resembling a seraph, either in beauty or in fervour of exalted devotion. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] > specifically of persons faireOE sheenOE brightOE (the) sheenc1275 belc1314 pertc1330 quaintc1330 gaya1350 beau1399 formose14.. clearc1420 beautiful1509 venust1513 venereal1598 rare-beautied?1614 venerial1661 seraphic1765 nymphish1789 hyacinthine1847 bloomful1890 the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] > belonging to hierarchy > of or relating to seraphim > resembling seraphic1807 1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) III. i. 71 That seraphic dame, Mrs. Rowe, also painted. 1807 G. Crabbe Sir Eustace Grey in Poems 220 Her Morals [shew'd], the seraphic Saint. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iv. x. 264 That seraphic being whose lustre even now haunts my vision. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xiii Seraphic saints, and gorgeous scenes by Tintoret. b. Of discourse, actions, appearance: showing ecstasy of devout contemplation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [adjective] frenetic?c1550 seraphical1581 frenetical1588 ecstatical1600 zealot1641 ecstatic1645 rapturous1656 vowed1665 seraphica1668 synagoguish1690 frantic?1715 solid1740 ecstasied1787 religionistic1842 a1668 W. Davenant Play-house to Let i. (1673) 76 A spiritual Musician too With his seraphick Colloquies exprest In stilo recitativo. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 24 May (1976) IX. 211 A very good and seraphic kind of sermon, too good for an ordinary congregation. 1884 Punch 18 Oct. 191/1 The seraphic look of personal affection that mantled his brow. B. n. †1. a. [= ecclesiastical Latin seraphicus.] A Franciscan friar. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun] Friar Minorc1230 Grey friara1350 minor?c1450 Sister Minor1473 Franciscan1534 Minorite1537 seraphic1680 seraphic friar1826 Minorist1836 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xx. 252 They are commanded to wear the Coat and Hood; (for so say the Seraphicks). b. Allusively applied in the sense of zealot. ΚΠ 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα ii. xxxii. 256 Many high Seraphicks and supercilious Separatists. 2. seraphics n. rapturous moods or discourses. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > impassioned wildfirea1400 storm1602 mouth-grenado1647 seraphics1709 mouth-grenade1714 ecstatics1821 stem-winder1875 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] > rapturous moods or discourses seraphics1709 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a discourse or lecture > rapturous discourses seraphics1709 1709 J. Swift & J. Addison Tatler No. 32 To hear her talk Seraphicks, and run over Norris, and Moor, and Milton. 1789 C. Smith Ethelinde I. viii. 205 And the angel will descend from her seraphics. Compounds Special collocations: seraphic doctor n. a title given to St. Bonaventura (in Spain also popularly to St. Teresa). ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Seraphick In the Schools, St. Bonaventure is call'd The Seraphic Doctor, from his abundant Zeal and Fervour. 1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. v. 153 The seraphic doctor observes that [etc.]. 1894 Mrs. G. C. Graham S. Teresa I. iv. 179 (note) Teresa, by a definitive decree of the Tribunal of the Rota, is formally declared a Doctor of the Church. The ‘seraphic doctor’, the antonomasia by which she is as often as not referred to in Spain, relates to this, and not to the Doctor's degree bestowed upon her, after her death, by the University of Salamanca. Seraphic Father n. a title given to St. Francis. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Seraphick St. Francis, the Founder of the Cordeliers and Franciscans, is called the Seraphic Father, in Memory of a Vision he saw on Mount Alverna,..when, falling into an Ecstasy, he saw a Seraph glide rapidly from Heaven upon him; which impress'd on him certain Stigmata or Marks. 1884 Tablet 11 Oct. 592/1 The Feast of the Seraphic Father St. Francis was celebrated with great solemnity. seraphic friar n. a Franciscan. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun] Friar Minorc1230 Grey friara1350 minor?c1450 Sister Minor1473 Franciscan1534 Minorite1537 seraphic1680 seraphic friar1826 Minorist1836 1826 R. Southey Lett. to C. Butler 514 The Seraphic and Cherubic friars. seraphic habit n. ΚΠ 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 143 Those who take that habit, which they call Seraphick, are not to be numbered among Men, but are become Angels. seraphic hymn n. the Sanctus (see Isaiah. 6:3). seraphic order n. ΚΠ 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxiv. 418 Of the Mendicants the most numerous is the Serafic, or Franciscan order. Derivatives seˈraphicness n. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > seraphim > seraph > appearance of seraphicness1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Seraphickness, the being of the seraphick Nature. 1888 ‘W. Châteauclair’ Young Seigneur 71 No romantic seraphicness glowed upon her features. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1632
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