angelical
See also: Angelical
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al;[1] equivalent to angel + -ical.
Adjective edit
angelical (comparative more angelical, superlative most angelical)
- Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
- 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:
- She was all angelical gentleness.
- 2005 May 21, Joan Dupont, “The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones”, in International Herald Tribune, retrieved 2 Nov. 2008:
- "You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said.
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Translations edit
resembling, characteristic of, an angel — see angelic
References edit
- “angelical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- ^ “angelical, adj.”, in OED Online
[1], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-29.
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angelical m or f (plural angelicais)
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Spanish edit
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angelical m or f (masculine and feminine plural angelicales)
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Further reading edit
- “angelical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014