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#*: Ye Hoſts that to his Courts belong, / [[cherubic|Cherubic]] Quires, '''Seraphic''' Flames, / Awake the everlaſting Song. |
#*: Ye Hoſts that to his Courts belong, / [[cherubic|Cherubic]] Quires, '''Seraphic''' Flames, / Awake the everlaſting Song. |
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# [[pure|Pure]] and [[sublime]]; [[angelic]]. |
# [[pure|Pure]] and [[sublime]]; [[angelic]]. |
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#* '''1684''', {{w|Aphra Behn}}, ''{{w|Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister}}'' |
#* '''1684''', {{w|Aphra Behn}}, ''{{w|Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister}}'', London: Randal Taylor, pp. 90-91,<sup>[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27301.0001.001]</sup> |
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#*: A thousand times he was like to have denyed all, but durst not defame the most sacred Idol of his Soul: Sometimes he thought his Uncle would be generous, and think it fit to give him Silvia; but that Thought was too '''Seraphick''' to remain a Moment in his Heart. |
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#* '''1782''', {{w|Thomas Pennant}}, ''The Journey from Chester to London'', |
#* '''1782''', {{w|Thomas Pennant}}, ''The Journey from Chester to London'', London: B. White, Part 2, p. 407,<sup>[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004813241.0001.000]</sup> |
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#*: Their passion seems to have been of the '''seraphic''' kind. She devoted herself to religion, and persuaded him to do the same. |
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#* '''1864''', {{w|Robert Browning}}, “Gold Hair” in ''{{w|Dramatis Personae|Dramatis Personæ}}'', London: Chapman & Hall<sup>[https://archive.org/details/dramatispersonae00browuoft]</sup> |
#* '''1864''', {{w|Robert Browning}}, “Gold Hair” in ''{{w|Dramatis Personae|Dramatis Personæ}}'', London: Chapman & Hall, p. 27,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/dramatispersonae00browuoft]</sup> |
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#*: Too white, for the flower of life is |
#*: Too white, for the flower of life is red; |
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#*: Her flesh was the soft, '''seraphic''' screen |
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#*: Of a soul that is meant (her parents said) |
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#*: To just see earth, and hardly be seen, |
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#*: And blossom in Heaven instead. |
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#* '''1958''', {{w|T. H. White}}, ''{{w|The Once and Future King}}'', London: Collins, 1959, Chapter 5,<sup>[http://www.fadedpage.com/books/20150633/html.php]</sup> |
#* '''1958''', {{w|T. H. White}}, ''{{w|The Once and Future King}}'', London: Collins, 1959, Chapter 5,<sup>[http://www.fadedpage.com/books/20150633/html.php]</sup> |
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#*: She had a '''seraphic''' smile on her face. |
#*: She had a '''seraphic''' smile on her face. |
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Revision as of 00:40, 25 April 2018
English
Alternative forms
- seraphical (archaic)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin seraphicus, from Late Latin seraphīm, seraphīn, from Hebrew שָׂרָף (saráf, “seraph”). Surface etymology seraph + -ic.
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) IPA(key): /səˈɹæf.ɪk/ - (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Rhymes: -æfɪk - (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Hyphenation: se‧raf‧ic
Adjective
seraphic (comparative more seraphic, superlative most seraphic)
- Of or relating to a seraph or the seraphim.
- the Seraphic Doctor, title given to the Italian medieval theologian Bonaventure
- Template:RQ:Milton Lost, lines 536-539:
- Who forthwith from the glittering Staff unfurld / Th’ imperial Enſign, which full high advanc’t / Shon like a Meteor ſtreaming to the Wind / With Gemms and Golden luſtre rich imblaz’d, / Seraphic arms and Trophies : all the while / Sonorous metal blowing Martial ſounds […]
- 1739, John Wesley, “God’s Greatness”, in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 4th edition, Bristol: Felix Farley (1743), page 108:
- Ye Hoſts that to his Courts belong, / Cherubic Quires, Seraphic Flames, / Awake the everlaſting Song.
- Pure and sublime; angelic.
- 1684, Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, London: Randal Taylor, pp. 90-91,[1]
- A thousand times he was like to have denyed all, but durst not defame the most sacred Idol of his Soul: Sometimes he thought his Uncle would be generous, and think it fit to give him Silvia; but that Thought was too Seraphick to remain a Moment in his Heart.
- 1782, Thomas Pennant, The Journey from Chester to London, London: B. White, Part 2, p. 407,[2]
- Their passion seems to have been of the seraphic kind. She devoted herself to religion, and persuaded him to do the same.
- 1864, Robert Browning, “Gold Hair” in Dramatis Personæ, London: Chapman & Hall, p. 27,[3]
- Too white, for the flower of life is red;
- Her flesh was the soft, seraphic screen
- Of a soul that is meant (her parents said)
- To just see earth, and hardly be seen,
- And blossom in Heaven instead.
- 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, London: Collins, 1959, Chapter 5,[4]
- She had a seraphic smile on her face.
- 2012, Paul Lester, “Schoolboy Q (No 1,193),” The Guardian, 25 January, 2012,[5]
- So instead of Tesfaye’s seraphic warble, Hanley offers earthier, gruffer tones: you get the impression, considering the casual sexism and more conventional machismo on display here, that the rarefied, stylised and feminised would be unacceptable in his world.
- 1684, Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, London: Randal Taylor, pp. 90-91,[1]
Translations
relating to the seraphim
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pure and sublime
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