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cherubic, a.|tʃəˈr(j)uːbɪk|
[f. cherub + -ic; cf. F. chérubique.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cherub or cherubs; angelic.
cherubic doctor: a title given to Thomas Aquinas. cherubic friar: a Dominican. cherubic form in art: a representation of the four faces of the ‘living creatures’ in Ezekiel's vision. cherubic symbols: representations of the four ‘living creatures’ of Ezekiel and the Apocalypse as symbols of the four evangelists. cherubic hymn: a hymn occurring in the chief eastern liturgies, beginning with ‘(We) who mystically represent the cherubim’.
c1630Milton At a Solemn Music 12 The Cherubick Host in thousand quires Touch their immortal Harps. 1667― P.L. v. 547 Cherubic Songs by night from neighbouring Hills. 1667H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxiii. (1713) 229 The Cherubick or Angelick Body. 1709Kennet Erasmus on Folly 121 They shall cite their doctors invincible, subtle, seraphick, cherubick, holy, irrefragable. 1826Southey Lett. to Butler 514 The Seraphic and Cherubic friars. 1866N. & Q. 3rd Ser. IX. 468/1 Plates of the Four Evangelists with the cherubic symbols. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos v. 62 A fairer Eden..where no cherubic sword guards the way. 1875E. White Life in Christ iii. xx. (1878) 265 The sapphire floor of the Cherubic Car. 1876Dict. Chr. Antiq. I. 89/1 Cherubic representations of the four ‘Living Creatures’. Ibid. I. 634/1 A..tetramorph or cherubic form bearing the evangelic symbols. Ibid. I. 801/1 While it is being sung, the priest says secretly a prayer called the prayer of the cherubic hymn.
b. Like a cherub represented as a child-angel; having a childish innocent face.
1860Reade Cloister & H. IV. 323 The innocent distress on the cherubic face.
2. as n. = Cherubic friar, Dominican.
1826Southey Lett. to Butler 516 A host of shaven and shorn Cherubics have followed him. |