单词 | seraphical |
释义 | seraphicaladj. Now rare. = seraphic adj. 1. Relating to the seraphim; = seraphic adj. 1. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < adj.a1540 |
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