angelical

English

Etymology

From angel +‎ -ical.

Adjective

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.
   • c. 1595 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 1,

     O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!

     Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

     Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

   • 1869, Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, chapter 20,

     She was all angelical gentleness.

   • 2005, Joan Dupont, "The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones," International Herald Tribune, 21 May (retrieved 2 Nov. 2008),

     "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.

Derived terms

• angelicality
• angelicalness

 

Translations

resembling, characteristic of, an angel — see angelic

References

• "angelical" at OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Anagrams

• Galenical, englacial, galenical

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Portuguese

Etymology

From angélico +‎ -al.

Adjective

1. angelic (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel)

   Synonym: angélico

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Spanish

Adjective

angelical m or f (masculine and feminine plural angelicales)

1. angelic (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel)

   Synonym: angélico

Derived terms

• angelicalmente

Related terms

• ángel

Further reading

• “angelical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014