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单词 seraphical
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seraphicaladj.

/səˈrafɪkəl/
Etymology: < ecclesiastical Latin seraphicus seraphic adj. + -al suffix1.
Now rare.
= seraphic adj.
1. Relating to the seraphim; = seraphic adj. 1.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [adjective] > belonging to hierarchy > of or relating to seraphim
seraphical1568
seraphic1632
1568 T. Newton in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 553 The troupes seraphicall.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 13) 882 Some of the haires that fell from the Seraphicall Angell.
2.
a. Resembling what pertains to the seraphim; rapturous, ecstatically devout.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [adjective]
frenetic?c1550
seraphical1581
frenetical1588
ecstatical1600
zealot1641
ecstatic1645
rapturous1656
vowed1665
seraphica1668
synagoguish1690
frantic?1715
solid1740
ecstasied1787
religionistic1842
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 304 Let us take a test of this your Seraphicall obedience.
1593 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 274 In the profoundest traunce of rapt Seraphicall Zeale.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. G4 My Seraphicall visions in Queene Poetrie.
1648 J. Goodwin Νεοϕυτοπρεσβυτερος 2 A man of such Seraphicall parts and learning.
1674 H. Croft Let. Popish Idolatrie 13 St. Francis,..and many others, in their Seraphical Meditations, have been rapt up into the third Heaven.
1742–3 Observ. Methodists 17 Together with a mixture of Seemingly Seraphical Flights and extravagant Allusions.
b. Of ideas, etc.: lofty, sublime. Cf. seraphic adj. 2b (In quot. 1656 ironical.) Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adjective] > specifically of things or ideas
regal1561
prince-worthy1574
mounted1601
august1602
elevated1604
venerable1615
tall1655
seraphical1656
big1660
rarefied1662
elevate1667
grand1678
dignified1763
princessly1813
sublimized1827
high-stepping1867
1656 Cromwell Speech in T. Burton 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 cent. often ironical, applied to fanatical religionists or to impassioned orators.
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. G4v Graue Heliconists, seraphicall Omniscians.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Seraphicall, inflamed with diuine loue like a Seraphin.
1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 51 Such-like rare seraphicall rhetoritians.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 18 The most florid and seraphical Teacher in the University.
a1714 J. Sharp Serm. in Wks. (1754) III. 218 Thus some very seraphical men do talk.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 33 The most Seraphical Illuminati, and the highest Puritan Perfectionists.
4. In seraphical doctor, seraphical order: see seraphic order n. at seraphic adj. and n. Compounds.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [adjective]
Franciscan1536
seraphical doctora1540
Minorite1563
a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 278 For these thinges bee geuen vnto them peculiar names, as subtile and seraphicall, and irrefrigable Doctours.
1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) xxxix. f. 116v The Seraphicall order of S. Fraunces.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 80 These Seraphicall Fathers doe so under-value all other Orders, that [etc.].
1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 375 Bonaventure..called generally the Seraphical Doctor.
1721 Constitutions Blue Nuns x Let them keep the Octave of the Seraphicall Father S. Francis.

Derivatives

seˈraphicalist n. Obsolete a person who pretends to ‘seraphic’ excellence.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [noun] > person > pretender
religionist1651
seraphicalist1659
1659 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1901) IV. 301 It's strange to see these seraphiclists [sic] can act without law, against Parliaments and against morality.
seˈraphicalness n. Obsolete
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Seraphicalness, the being of the seraphick Nature.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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