archangelical

English

Etymology

arch- +‎ angelical

Adjective

archangelical (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of archangels.

   Synonym: archangelic

   • 1633, Thomas Adams, A Commentary or, Exposition upon the Divine Second Epistle Generall, Written by the Blessed Apostle St. Peter‎^[1], London: Jacob Bloome, Chapter 3, verse 7, p. 1237:

     […] we have had the prediction of Christ and his Apostles, of above fifteene hundred yeeres standing; besides the daily sound of those Evangelicall Trumpets, that tell us of that Archangelicall Trumpet in their Pulpits.

   • 1894, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Lord Ormont and His Aminta,‎^[2], volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 241:

     […] they see in their conscience-blasted minds a barrier to a return home, high as the Archangelical gate behind Mother Eve […]

   • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 3:

     With one foot on the sea and one foot on the land he blew from the archangelical trumpet the brazen death of time.

Translations

archangelic — see archangelic