单词 | angelology |
释义 | angelologyn. Theological doctrine relating to angels. Also more generally: the study or description of angels. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning angels > [noun] angelology1663 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova I. iv. i. 2 The parts of which Doctrine might be aptly denoted by Theology, Angelology and Psychelogy. 1846 ‘G. Eliot’ tr. D. F. Strauss Life Jesus I. 106 The manner in which this interpreter [sc. Olshausen]..treats of angelology and demonology. 1882 ‘N. Tradleg’ Son of Belial ix. 191 He was, doubtless, first cousin..to the Angel Gabriel, who, as the Persians inform us—and they are the chief authorities in angelology—discoursed in the liquid accents of the Turkish tongue. 1929 E. D. Ross tr. H. Lammens Islām iii. 48 The angelology of the Qorān is not complicated. 1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 20 Apr. 30/2 Does the renewed..interest in chanting and meditation, shamanism and angelology signify a genuine New Age? 2006 Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. (Times2 section) 4 Angelology consists of layer upon layer of stories, the celestial hierarchy grouping the heavenly host into nine tiers such as thrones, dominions and virtues—all with a different job. Derivatives angeloˈlogical adj. [originally after German angelologisch (1841 in the passage translated in quot. 1842)] of or relating to angelology. ΚΠ 1842 J. E. Ryland tr. A. Neander Hist. Planting & Training Christian Church I. iii. ix. 381 Traces of such a Judaizing angelological [Ger. angelologischen] tendency were to be found in those parts. 1969 E. Werner Sacred Bridge i. vi. 189 The angelological line in both the Kontakia and early Kerobas. 2011 Hist. Jrnl. 54 603 Although formal angelological treatises were rare, angels penetrated writings of all kinds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1663 |
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