cherubicadj.
/tʃəˈr(j)uːbɪk/ 1.
a. 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’.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective]
angelicalc1429
angelic?c1450
angel-like1561
seraphic1632
cherubic1645
angeliferous1837
the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] > belonging to hierarchy > of or relating to cherubim
cherubinical1602
cherubical1607
cherubic1645
cherubimical1731
cherubimic1794
society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Dominican Order > [noun] > member of
Jacobina1325
preacher?c1335
Black Friar1417
Dominicc1540
Jacobitea1563
preaching friar1598
Dominicana1632
cherubic1826
cherubic friar1826
thong-wearer1901
society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [adjective] > four evangelists
cherubimical1731
cherubic1866
tetramorphic1901
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] > of living thing > of type of figure
cherubimical1731
cherubic1866
criophoric1885
criophorous1921
1645 J. Milton At Solemn Musick in Poems 22 The Cherubick host in thousand quires Touch their immortal Harps.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 547 Cherubic Songs by night from neighbouring Hills. View more context for this quotation
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xxiii. 229 The Cherubick or Angelick Body.
1709 Bp. W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Encomium Moriæ 121 They shall cite their doctors invincible, subtle, seraphick, cherubick, holy, irrefragable.
1826 R. Southey Lett. to C. Butler 514 The Seraphic and Cherubic friars.
1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 9 468/1 Plates of the Four Evangelists with the cherubic symbols.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos v. 62 A fairer Eden..where no cherubic sword guards the way.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xx. 265 The sapphire floor of the Cherubic Car.
1876 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. I. 89/1 Cherubic representations of the four ‘Living Creatures’.
1876 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. I. 634/1 A..tetramorph or cherubic form bearing the evangelic symbols.
1876 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. 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.
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the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > childlike
childlike1577
bairnly1603
cherubimical1854
cherubic1860
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]
flatc1400
hardc1400
low-cheeredc1400
large?a1425
ruscledc1440
well-visagedc1440
platter-faced1533
well-faced1534
full-faced1543
fair-faced1553
bright-faceda1560
crab-faced1563
crab-snouted1563
crab-tree-faced1563
long-visaged1584
owlya1586
wainscot-faced1588
flaberkin1592
rough-hewn1593
angel-faced1594
round-faced1594
crab-favoured1596
rugged1596
weasel-faced1596
rough-faced1598
half-faced1600
chitty1601
lenten-faced1604
broad-faced1607
dog-faced1607
weaselled-faced1607
wry-faced1607
maid-faced1610
warp-faced1611
ill-faceda1616
lean-faceda1616
old-faceda1616
moon-faced1619
monkey-faced1620
chitty-face1622
chitty-faceda1627
lean-chapt1629
antic-faced1635
bloat-faced1638
bacon-facea1640
blue-faced1640
hatchet-faced1648
grave1650
lean-jawed1679
smock-faced1684
lean-visaged1686
flaber1687
baby-faced1692
splatter-faced1707
chubby1722
puggy1722
block-faced1751
haggard-looking1756
long-faced1762
haggardly1763
fresh-faced1766
dough-faced1773
pudding-faced1777
baby-featured1780
fat-faced1782
haggard1787
weazen-face1794
keen1798
ferret-like1801
lean-cheeked1812
mulberry-faced1812
open-faced1813
open-countenanced1819
chiselled1821
hatchety1821
misfeatured1822
terse1824
weazen-faced1824
mahogany-faced1825
clock-faced1827
sharp1832
sensual1833
beef-faced1838
weaselly1838
ferret-faced1840
sensuous1843
rat-faced1844
recedent1849
neat-faced1850
cherubimical1854
pinch-faced1859
cherubic1860
frownya1861
receding1866
weak1882
misfeaturing1885
platopic1885
platyopic1885
pro-opic1885
wind-splitting1890
falcon-face1891
blunt-featured1916
bun-faced1927
fish-faced1963
1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth IV. 323 The innocent distress on the cherubic face.
2. as n. = Cherubic friar, Dominican.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Dominican Order > [noun] > member of
Jacobina1325
preacher?c1335
Black Friar1417
Dominicc1540
Jacobitea1563
preaching friar1598
Dominicana1632
cherubic1826
cherubic friar1826
thong-wearer1901
1826 R. Southey Lett. to C. Butler 516 A host of shaven and shorn Cherubics have followed him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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