angelical

See also: Angelical

English

Etymology

From Middle English aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al; equivalent to angel +‎ -ical.

Adjective

angelical (comparative more angelical, superlative most angelical)

1. 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

• angelicality
• angelically
• angelicalness
• archangelical
• disangelical
• unangelical

 

Translations

resembling, characteristic of, an angel — see angelic

References

• “angelical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Anagrams

• Galenical, englacial, galenical

Portuguese

Etymology

From angélico +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.ʒe.liˈkaw/ [ɐ̃.ʒe.liˈkaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.ʒɨ.liˈkal/ [ɐ̃.ʒɨ.liˈkaɫ]

• (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)

1. angelic (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel)

   Synonym: angélico

Derived terms

• angelicalmente

Spanish

Adjective

angelical m or f (masculine and feminine plural angelicales)

1. angelic (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel)

   Synonym: angélico

Derived terms

• angelicalmente

 

Related terms

• ángel

 

Further reading

• “angelical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16