angelical
See also: Angelical
English
Adjective
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!
- 1860–1861, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in The Uncommercial Traveller:
- 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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Derived terms
Translations
resembling, characteristic of, an angel — see angelic
References
- angelical at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.ʒe.liˈkaw/ [ɐ̃.ʒe.liˈkaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.ʒɨ.liˈkal/ [ɐ̃.ʒɨ.liˈkaɫ]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: an‧ge‧li‧cal
Adjective
angelical m or f (plural angelicais)
Derived terms
Spanish
Adjective
angelical (plural angelicales)
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Related terms
Further reading
- “angelical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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