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.

   She was all angelical gentleness.

   1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC

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   O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

   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]

   "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.

   2005 May 21, Joan Dupont, “The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones”, in International Herald Tribune, retrieved 02 Nov 2008

   Synonyms: angelic, angellike, angelly, angelic, angellike, angelly, cherubic, cherubical

1. The Enochian language (believed to be the language of angels).

   There are no onomatapeioæ^([sic]) in Angelical.

   2009, Geoffrey James, The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee