high angel

English

Alternative forms

• high-angel

Etymology

From Middle English heh-engel, from Old English hēahengel (“archangel”).

Noun

high angel (plural high angels)

1. Archangel.
   • 1856, Charles Lloyd, Formularies of Faith Put Forth by Authority During the Reign of Henry VIII:

     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.

   • 1889, Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, Mohammed and Mohammedanism:

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

     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.

   • 1965, The Islamic literature - Volume 11 - Page 31:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

   • 2008, Miriam E. Bellamy, Demons in the Sanctuary:

     The high angel, Michael, flanked by the two commanders, continued his relentless attack bearing grimly and deliberately down upon the two dark leaders, Python and Jezebel.

   • 2008, Merrll O'Brian, 665 the Council Of: (Part One) - Page 241:

     As Sagittarius examined the pictures, the writer told of meeting both a High Angel, one named Tyrrell, and an Arch Demon, a Seraph, one of the four Seraphim who fell in the rebellion. Sag thought about the matter. A third of Heaven.

   • 2010, Merrill C. Tenney, The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 4:

     So to Keil and a host of others he is the preincarnate Christ, while Michael is a high angel.