Meanings
- not comparableOf, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of archangels.
With one foot on the sea and one foot on the land he blew from the archangelical trumpet the brazen death of time.
1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 32 more examples
[…] we have had the prediction of Christ and his Apostles, of above fifteene hundred yeeres standing; besides the daily sound of those Evangelicall Trumpets, that tell us of that Archangelicall Trumpet in their Pulpits.
1633, Thomas Adams, A Commentary or, Exposition upon the Divine Second Epistle Generall, Written by the Blessed Apostle St. Peter, London: Jacob Bloome, Chapter 3, verse 7, p. 1237[…] they see in their conscience-blasted minds a barrier to a return home, high as the Archangelical gate behind Mother Eve […]
1894, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Lord Ormont and His Aminta,, volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 241Synonyms: archangelic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of archangels.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof or relating to or resembling archangels
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Origin
From Latin archangelicus + -al. By surface analysis, arch- + angelical or archangel + -ical.
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