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adjective

Angelical, Angelic adj.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." "Angelical actions." "The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience."

Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; as, an angelic smile.

Synonyms: angelic, cherubic, seraphic, sweet.

Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; as, angelic benificence.

Synonyms: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted.

Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14.

Angelic adj. (Chem.) Of or derived from angelica; as, angelic acid; angelic ether.

Angelic acid, an acid obtained from angelica and some other plants.

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"Angelic" Quotes from Famous Books

... headquarters. In 1846, shortly before his sixtieth birthday, he met, so he confided to the long-suffering Lucie, the only woman he had ever loved, or at least the only woman he had ever desired to marry. Unfortunately, the lady, who was young, beautiful, clever, of high rank, large fortune, and angelic disposition, had been married for some years to a husband who is described as ugly, ill-tempered, jealous, and incredibly selfish. The prince's letters at this period are filled with raptures over the virtues of his new inamorata, and lamentations that he had met ...

— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

... hearty and cordial congratulations on the event.[29] We are all delighted that it is at last well over. There is an uncertainty attendant on angelic strangers (as Miss Tox says) which it is a great relief to have so happily ...

— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870 • Charles Dickens

... beautiful turn to the heads and such grace to the vestments that more could not have been desired in those days. In like manner he painted in the vaulting a choir of angels flying in the air about a Madonna. As they gracefully dance they appear to be singing, with a joy truly angelic and divine; whilst they are playing various instruments their eyes are fixed and intent on another choir of angels, sustained by a cloud of almond shape bearing the Madonna to heaven arranged in beautiful attitudes and surrounded ...

— The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) • Giorgio Vasari

... greater number. The silent songs that genius hears, the invisible pictures that genius paints, the hidden castles that genius builds—no building of a city without can compare for wonder and beauty and richness with the building processes of the soul within. If some angelic reporter could reduce all man's thoughts to physical volume, how vast the book would be! Thoughts do not go single, but march in armies. Feelings and aspirations move like flocks of caroling songsters. Desires swarm forth from the soul like bees from a hive. The soul is a city ...

— A Man's Value to Society - Studies in Self Culture and Character • Newell Dwight Hillis

... The framework of the body of him who has weighed the stars and made the lightning his slave, approaches to that of a speechless brute, who wanders in the forests of Sumatra. Thus standing on the frontier land between animal and angelic natures, what wonder that he should partake of both!"* (* Hallam, "Introduction to the Literature of Europe" etc. volume ...

— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell

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