Angelic
//ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk// adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul, a Roman Catholic religious order.
Adjective
- 1 Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
- 2 Very sweet-natured, well-behaved, or beautiful.
"an angelic child"
- 3 Of or pertaining to angelic acid.
"an angelic ester"
- 4 A regular Hausdorff space is said to be angelic if the closure of each relatively countably compact set A is compact and the closure consists of the limits of sequences in A.
Adjective
- 1 marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint wordnet
- 2 having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub wordnet
- 3 of or relating to angels wordnet
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More examples"I wouldn't mind having such angelic patience, either."
Etymology
From Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English angelly), from Old English anġelīċ, engellīċ, englelīċ, coalescing with Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”). Equivalent to angel + -ic. Doublet of angelique (“plant of the genus Angelica”) and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).
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