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1578 T. C. Hospitall for Diseased To Rdr. sig. A^v Where is one..that looking..vpon the frame of his owne bodie, most Angelically created: but shall of compulsion acknowledge the omnipotencie of God.

1606 J. Carpenter Schelomonocham ix. f. 34 Kings and Princes liue not so angelically, but they offend in some things grieuously.

1740 T. Gray Let. May in Corr. (1971) I. 158 La Diamantina..played on the violin divinely, and sung angelically.

1828 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 355/1 Her face Angelically seem'd to glow, and..her spirit fled to heaven.

1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. v. 76 She had a vision of his returning..to find her true, unreproachful, angelically forgiving.

2005 New Yorker 6 June 100/2 His tone ran the gamut from the gnawingly raw to the angelically pure.

1665 G. Wither Medit. upon Lords Prayer 14 Those Revelations also, that seem to be Angelically inspired.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xlix. 192 You never saw these [Decretals] that are Angelically [Fr. angelicquement] written.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. v. i. 230 An antient Piece or two, affirm'd, on the solemn Faith of Priestly Tradition, ‘to have been Angelically and Divinely wrought, by a supernatural Hand, and sacred Pencil’.

1888 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 669 Palma d' Oria..was confessedly another diabolically tormented, angelically visited individual.

1901 C. L. Marson Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln ii. 20 Those who are privileged to hear him talk are delighted to find his speech divinely or angelically inspired.

2000 H. Najman in Past Renewals (2009) vi. 129 Early Christians conceived of the revelation at Sinai as angelically mediated.