angelical
See also: Angelical
English
Etymology
From Middle English aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al;[1] equivalent to angel + -ical.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkəl/
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 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.
Derived terms
Translations
resembling, characteristic of, an angel — see angelic
References
- “angelical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- ^ “angelical, adj.”, in OED Online [1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 29 September 2023.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.ʒe.liˈkaw/ [ɐ̃.ʒe.liˈkaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.ʒɨ.liˈkal/ [ɐ̃.ʒɨ.liˈkaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.ʒɨ.liˈka.li/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: an‧ge‧li‧cal
Adjective
angelical m or f (plural angelicais)
Derived terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anxeliˈkal/ [ãŋ.xe.liˈkal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: an‧ge‧li‧cal
Adjective
angelical m or f (masculine and feminine plural angelicales)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “angelical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024