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seraphical, a. Now rare.|səˈræfɪkəl|
[f. eccl. L. seraphic-us seraphic a. + -al1.]
= seraphic a.
1. Pertaining to the seraphim; = seraphic 1.
1568T. Newton in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) 553 The troupes seraphicall. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Pet. ii. 13 Some of the hairs that fell from the seraphical angel.
2. Resembling what pertains to the seraphim; rapturous, ecstatically devout.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 304 Let us take a test of this your Seraphicall obedience. 1593G. Harvey New Letter Wks. (Grosart) I. 274 In the profoundest traunce of rapt Seraphicall Zeale. 1596Nashe Saffron-Walden G 4, My Seraphicall visions in Queene Poetrie. 1648J. Goodwin Yongling Elder 2 A man of such Seraphicall parts and learning. 1674Bp. Croft Let. Pop. Idol. (1679) 13 St. Francis,..and many others, in their Seraphical Meditations, have been rapt up into the third Heaven. 1742–3Observ. Methodists 17 Together with a mixture of Seemingly Seraphical Flights and extravagant Allusions.
†b. Of ideas, etc.: Lofty, sublime. Cf. seraphic a. 2 b. (In quot. ironical.) Obs.
1656Cromwell Sp. in Burton's Diary (1828) I. Introd. 161 Now we would be loth to tell you of notions more seraphical.
3. Of persons: Resembling the seraphim; characterized by ecstatic fervour of devotion. In the 17th c. often ironical, applied to fanatical religionists or to impassioned orators.
1596Nashe Saffron-Walden G 4 b, Graue Heliconists, seraphicall Omniscians. 1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Seraphicall, inflamed with diuine loue like a Seraphin. 1644Vicars God in Mount (1844) 44 Such like rare seraphical rhetoritians. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 18 The most florid and seraphical Teacher in the University. 1692South 12 Sermons (1697) V. 33 The most Seraphical Illuminati, and the highest Puritan Perfectionists. a1714Abp. J. Sharp Serm. Wks. 1754 III. 218 Thus some very seraphical men do talk.
†4. In seraphical doctor, seraphical order: see seraphic 4.
a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 278 For these thinges bee geuen vnto them peculiar names, as subtile and seraphicall, and irrefrigable Doctours. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 116 b, The Seraphicall order of S. Fraunces. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 80 These Seraphicall Fathers doe so under value all other Orders, that [etc.]. 1674Hickman Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2) 69 Bonaventure..called generally the Seraphical Doctor. 1721Constitutions Blue Nuns x, Let them keep the Octave of the Seraphicall Father S. Francis.
Hence † seˈraphicalist, one who pretends to ‘seraphic’ excellence; † seˈraphicalness.
1659Clarke Papers (Camden) IV. 301 It's strange to see these seraphiclists [sic] can act without law, against Parliaments and against morality. 1727Bailey vol. II, Seraphicalness, the being of the seraphick Nature. |