high angel

plural high angels · alternative high-angel

1. Archangel.

   Vohumano came to be considered, first as one of the highangels attendant on him, and then formally as one of his six councillors.

   2004, George Rawlinson, The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World

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   And blessed art thou that diddest believe. For all things that have been spoken to thee from our Lord shall be performed. Second, that the angel Gabriel, which spake to the virgin, was an high angel, and an high messenger.

   1856, Charles Lloyd, Formularies of Faith Put Forth by Authority During the Reign of Henry VIII

   In that night his Excellency also met the Taker-away-of-life ; and he begged of that high angel, "When thou takest away the souls of my people, do so easily, kindly, and gently."

   1889, Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, Mohammed and Mohammedanism

   Nor, again, would anybody guess, without previous knowledge or elucidation, that a highwayman was a kind of robber, a high-head a kind of coiffare, a high-low a kind of boot, a high-man a kind of loaded die, or that, when our ancestors spoke of a high-father, a high-angel, and a high-bishop, they meant a patriarch, an archangel, and an archbishop respectively.

   1889, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary & Philosophical Society - Volumes 43-44 - Page 172

   Such a man continues to progress in this state till an imperceptible [tru]th opens between his mind and the minds of the seraphic order of high angels.

   1965, The Islamic literature - Volume 11 - Page 31

   Many foretell Michael's tide far and wide five nights on past the equinox when earls and ceorls keep harvest time with the high angel's feast remembered together throughout the land.

   2003, Cyril Roy Hart, Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England and the influence of Ramsey Abbey on the major English monastic schools