seraphimseraphinn.

Brit.

/ˈsɛrəfɪm/, U.S.

/ˈsɛrəˌfɪm/

Forms: Old English, Middle English–1600s, 1800s archaic seraphin, Middle English serafin, Middle English serafyn, Middle English ceraphin, secheraphym, secheraphyn, seraphyn, seraphen, serophyn, syraphyn, 1500s–1600s seraphine, Old English, 1500s– seraphim.

Etymology: < late Latin seraphim (Vulgate), in manuscripts often seraphin (= Greek σεραϕίμ, σεραϕείμ, Septuagint), < Hebrew s^erāphīm (only in Isaiah vi), plural of *sārāph, which is not recorded in the Bible, unless it be identical with the formally coincident word denoting a kind of venomous serpent, which occurs as quasi-adjective or in apposition to nāḥāsh serpent in Numbers xxi. and Deuteronomy viii. (English Bible ‘fiery serpents’, after Vulgate ignitos serpentes, serpens adurens; Septuagint ὄϕεις θανατοῦντας, ὄϕις δάκνων), and in Isaiah xiv. 29 and xxx. 6 with the epithet ‘flying’ (English Bible ‘fiery flying serpent’).Some scholars assume the identity of the word occurring in Isaiah vi. with that found in the other passages. On this view the ‘seraphim’ seen by Isaiah flying above the throne of God represent a mythic or symbolic conception which must originally have had the form of a ‘fiery flying serpent’, though in the vision this appears considerably modified. The word sārāph , as the name of a kind of serpent, may belong to the root sāraph to burn, in allusion to the effect of the bite (compare Greek πρηστήρ ). This etymology has given rise to a conjecture that the celestial ‘seraphim’ originally symbolized the lightning. Of those who reject the identity of sārāph ‘seraph’ with sārāph ‘fiery serpent’, some refer the former to the root of the Arabic sharafa to be lofty or illustrious. Phonologically this is unobjectionable, but on other grounds it is now generally abandoned. Various suggestions of non-Hebrew (Egyptian, Assyrian, etc.) etymology have been made, but have not found wide acceptance. The Latin form seraphin , which is found in many manuscripts of the Vulgate, and is the source of all the forms used in English down to the 16th cent. (as well as of those in the Romanic languages), coincides with the Aramaic s^erāphīn , but it is very doubtful whether it is more than a scribal error or a euphonic alteration. Compare French séraphin (serafin , 12th cent.), Provençal serafi , Spanish serafin , Portuguese seraphim , Italian serafino (all masculine singular). In the Latin liturgical passages from which the word first became widely known, it was probably originally apprehended correctly as a plural, and readers of the Latin Bible would be guided aright by the syntax of Isaiah vi. 2; but there is evidence that ‘Cherubim and Seraphim’ were often supposed to be the names of two individual angels. From the 15th to the 18th cent. the English plural ending was often appended, but seraphin as a singular = ‘one of the seraphim’ does not appear in English till late in the 16th cent. (the form seraphim in this use not till the 17th cent.). After the introduction (perhaps by Milton) of the form seraph n.¹, the misuse of the plural forms in singular sense gradually became rare, and it is now obsolete.

1. In Biblical use: The living creatures with six wings, hands and feet, and a (presumably) human voice, seen in Isaiah's vision as hovering above the throne of God.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > from Isaiah's vision

seraphima1382

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vi. 2 Serafyn stoden up on it. [1535 (Coverdale), 1537, 1539, 1551 the Seraphins; 1540 Seraphins; 1560 (Geneva), 1611 the Seraphims; 1568, 1609 (Douay) Seraphims; 1884 (Revised) the seraphim.]

2. By Christian interpreters the seraphim were from an early period supposed to be a class of angels, and the name, associated with that of the cherubim, was introduced in the Eucharistic preface and subsequently in the Te Deum, and thus became extensively known. The presumed derivation of the word from a Hebrew root meaning ‘to burn’ (see above) led to the view that the seraphim are specially distinguished by fervour of love (while the cherubim excel in knowledge), and to the symbolic use of red as the colour appropriate to the seraphim in artistic representations. In the system of the Pseudo-Dionysius, the chief source of later angelology, the seraphim are the highest, and the cherubim the second, of the nine orders of angels.

a. seraphin (obsolete exc. poetic as nonce-use), seraphim, used as plural. (Some of the early examples are ambiguous, and may belong to b.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > seraphim

seraphimOE

α.

OE Cynewulf Elene 754 Syndon tu on þam, sigorcynn on swegle, þe man seraphin be naman hateð.

a1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 191 Heih is þi kinestol onuppe cherubine, Biuoren ðine leoue sune wiðinnen seraphine.

c1250 Meid. Maregrete lxxv Cherubin ant serafin, a þousend þer were.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 104 Cherubin and Seraphin an al þe foure [the B and C texts have nine] ordres.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. viii. 34 Seraphyn is a multytude of angellis that is to vnderstonde: brennynge other settynge a fyre..and the propre offyce of thyse angels is to brenne in theymselfe and to moeue other to brenne in the loue of god.

a1400 Ipotis 92 (Vernon MS.) in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 342 Þe furste ordre is Cherubin And þat oþer Seraphin.

a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 21 To thee cherubyn and seraphyn cryeth with uoys with owten ceessynge.

c1425 St. Mary of Oignies i. vii, in Anglia VIII. 140/3 She sawe oon of Seraphyn, þat is a brennynge aungel.

1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. a iv b The iiii. Tronli [orders of angels] be theys Principatus Trony Cherubyn and Seraphyn.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Mattyns f. ii Cherubin, and Seraphin.

1642 R. Watson Serm. Schisme 32 The first place or degree is given to the Angels of love, which are termed Seraphin.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 287 What is it that makes the Seraphin burn and flame above the rest of the Angelical Orders?

1897 F. Thompson New Poems 74 You shall..ay, press in Where faint the fledge~foot seraphin.

β. OE Andreas (1932) 719 Cheruphim et Seraphim þa on swegeldreamum syndon nemned.a1500 Adrian & Epotys 92 in Brome Bk. 28 The secund ordyr is secheraphym.1645 J. Milton At Solemn Musick in Poems 22 Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow.a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 498 The angels..are..here called Seraphims from burning, or fiery Spirits.a1826 R. Heber Hymns Weekly Church Service (1827) 114 The sound which thou heardst was the Seraphim's song!1829 S. T. Coleridge Monody Death Chatterton (rev. ed.) in Poet. Wks. 15 Thou..The triumph of redeeming Love dost hymn..to harps of Seraphim.1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) ix. 533 Like the Seraphim, they are seen in adoring love, about His throne.1871 D. G. Rossetti Ave in Poems 104 And from between the seraphim The glory issues for a hymn.

†b. Taken as the name of an angel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > name of specific angel

cherub?c1225

seraphima1300

a1300 Cursor Mundi 22600 Þan sal quak sant cherubin, And alsua sal do seraphin.

a1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 37 Michaell and Gabrielle and Raphaelle, cherubyn and seraphyn, and all þe oþer angells and archangells.

c. Plural. †seraphins, seraphims (now rare).

ΚΠ

α.

a1400–50 Wars Alex. 9415 Þe silloure full of Seraphens & othire sere halows.

c1420 Virgin's Compl. 88 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 241 I sawe angelis with gret lithe of seraphynnys order adowne gan sende.

1490 Arte & Crafte to knowe well to Dye (Caxton) 22 The cherubyns and the syraphyns come to thyne helpe.

?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce 73 These were their names,..Angels, Arch-angels,..Powers, Cherubines, and Seraphines.

1596 E. Spenser Fowre Hymnes 94 Those eternall burning Seraphins, Which from their faces dart out fierie light.

a1610 T. Rogers Leycesters Ghost (1641) 25 Know that the Prince of Heavenly Seraphines..Was tumbled downe for his presumptuous sinne.

1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory sig. e7 All the strings Of Seraphins tun'd high, lowd Hymnes did play.

1649 R. Lovelace Elegy on Princess Katherine 51 Clap wings with Seraphins before the Throne.

1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 76 The Seraphins resound it.

β. [a1382 [see sense 1]. ]a1627 J. Beaumont Epiphany in Bosworth-field (1629) 61 Who..trie our actions in that searching fire, By which the Seraphims our lips inspire.1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. ii. 16 The joy is so great that it runs over and wets the fair brows and beauteous locks of Cherubims and Seraphims.1675 J. Sharp Serm. ii, in Wks. (1754) I. 58 To know and be known by angels, arch-angels, and seraphims.a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 201 Seraphims, whose Mold is heav'nly Love, Who nearest to the Godhead wait above.a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) III. 291 God, in whose presence the highest seraphims annihilate themselves.1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty iv. 23 From flowers as white as seraphims' breath.

d. seraphin, seraphim as a singular = one of the seraphim, a seraph.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > seraphim > seraph

seraphim1579

seraph1667

α.

1579 in W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue sig. B ij The Seraphin with his fiery sword not being taken away.

a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) iv. ii. 1613 No, he that would Soule's sacred Comfort wyn, must burne in pure love, like a Seraphin.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 66 She should have every thing divine That would befit a seraphin.

β. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 86 We will pledge this Seraphim [viz. St. Teresa] Bowles full of richer blood [etc.].a1674 T. Traherne Poems (1966) 67 While we see What evry Seraphim above admires!1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 168 God gave not the flaming Sword, which guarded Paradise, to a Seraphim.1802 J. West Infidel Father II. 85 Or had you..blended the service of the Deity with the idolatrous worship of a seraphim.1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. Nov. (1928) II. 80 A cherubim and a seraphim come winging their way towards me.1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Mar. 314/3 Lamartine is content to be a seraphim.

3. Heraldry.

†a. In Sir John Ferne's fanciful method of blazoning by ‘spirits’, the equivalent of Argent.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > metal > silver or white

silver1478

argent1562

moon1572

pearl1572

seraphim1586

luna1709

crystal1830

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 144 A fosse waynee between the two starres artick and antiartick seraphines.

b. The representation of a seraph.Usually, a child's head with two wings above, two below, and one on each side.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of human or divine beings > [noun] > seraph

seraphim1828

1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. at Carruthers Crest, a seraphim, volant, ppr.

4. A Swedish order of knighthood. (See quot. 1784.)

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > order > knighthood > other orders

Order of the Holy Ghost1587

stole1728

seraphim1784

Legion of Honour1802

1784 H. Clark Hist. Knighthood II. 213 Sweden. The Order of the Seraphim, or of Jesus..first instituted by Magnus the IId, in the year 1334... It..lay dormant, until February 1748, when it was revived..by Frederick the First.

5. Geology. singular and collective. A fossil crustacean of the genus Pterygotus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types > fossil > member of genus Pterygotus

seraphim1839

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. 606 Fig. 4 and 5 belong undoubtedly to the same animal as the Seraphim of the Old Red Sandstone.

1863 H. Woodward in Intellectual Observer IV. 229 The ‘Seraphim’, a fossil found in ‘the Arbroath paving~stone’ of Forfarshire, which from the wing-like form of some parts of the shell, and the scale or feather-like markings upon its surface, has given rise to this angelic title among the natives.

1894 Q. Rev. July 191 The giant crustaceans or arachnids known to the Scotch quarrymen as ‘Seraphim’.

6. A moth of the genus Lobophora. Also seraphim-moth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types > miscellaneous types > member of genus Lobophora (seraphim)

seraphim1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 132 The Seraphim (Lobophora hexapterata, Curtis) appears in June... The small Seraphim (Lobophora sexalisata, Curtis) appears in June and August.

1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 67 In..Lobophoræ there is so large an additional lobe to the hind wing as to give them the appearance of having six wings, whence they are called ‘Seraphims’ by collectors.

1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. Index to Popular Names Seraphim Moths.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seraphim
释义	seraphimseraphinn. Brit. /ˈsɛrəfɪm/, U.S. /ˈsɛrəˌfɪm/ Forms: Old English, Middle English–1600s, 1800s archaic seraphin, Middle English serafin, Middle English serafyn, Middle English ceraphin, secheraphym, secheraphyn, seraphyn, seraphen, serophyn, syraphyn, 1500s–1600s seraphine, Old English, 1500s– seraphim. Etymology: < late Latin seraphim (Vulgate), in manuscripts often seraphin (= Greek σεραϕίμ, σεραϕείμ, Septuagint), < Hebrew s^erāphīm (only in Isaiah vi), plural of sārāph, which is not recorded in the Bible, unless it be identical with the formally coincident word denoting a kind of venomous serpent, which occurs as quasi-adjective or in apposition to nāḥāsh* serpent in Numbers xxi. and Deuteronomy viii. (English Bible ‘fiery serpents’, after Vulgate ignitos serpentes, serpens adurens; Septuagint ὄϕεις θανατοῦντας, ὄϕις δάκνων), and in Isaiah xiv. 29 and xxx. 6 with the epithet ‘flying’ (English Bible ‘fiery flying serpent’).Some scholars assume the identity of the word occurring in Isaiah vi. with that found in the other passages. On this view the ‘seraphim’ seen by Isaiah flying above the throne of God represent a mythic or symbolic conception which must originally have had the form of a ‘fiery flying serpent’, though in the vision this appears considerably modified. The word sārāph , as the name of a kind of serpent, may belong to the root sāraph to burn, in allusion to the effect of the bite (compare Greek πρηστήρ ). This etymology has given rise to a conjecture that the celestial ‘seraphim’ originally symbolized the lightning. Of those who reject the identity of sārāph ‘seraph’ with sārāph ‘fiery serpent’, some refer the former to the root of the Arabic sharafa to be lofty or illustrious. Phonologically this is unobjectionable, but on other grounds it is now generally abandoned. Various suggestions of non-Hebrew (Egyptian, Assyrian, etc.) etymology have been made, but have not found wide acceptance. The Latin form seraphin , which is found in many manuscripts of the Vulgate, and is the source of all the forms used in English down to the 16th cent. (as well as of those in the Romanic languages), coincides with the Aramaic s^erāphīn , but it is very doubtful whether it is more than a scribal error or a euphonic alteration. Compare French séraphin (serafin , 12th cent.), Provençal serafi , Spanish serafin , Portuguese seraphim , Italian serafino (all masculine singular). In the Latin liturgical passages from which the word first became widely known, it was probably originally apprehended correctly as a plural, and readers of the Latin Bible would be guided aright by the syntax of Isaiah vi. 2; but there is evidence that ‘Cherubim and Seraphim’ were often supposed to be the names of two individual angels. From the 15th to the 18th cent. the English plural ending was often appended, but seraphin as a singular = ‘one of the seraphim’ does not appear in English till late in the 16th cent. (the form seraphim in this use not till the 17th cent.). After the introduction (perhaps by Milton) of the form seraph n.¹, the misuse of the plural forms in singular sense gradually became rare, and it is now obsolete. 1. In Biblical use: The living creatures with six wings, hands and feet, and a (presumably) human voice, seen in Isaiah's vision as hovering above the throne of God. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > from Isaiah's vision seraphima1382 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vi. 2 Serafyn stoden up on it. [1535 (Coverdale), 1537, 1539, 1551 the Seraphins; 1540 Seraphins; 1560 (Geneva), 1611 the Seraphims; 1568, 1609 (Douay) Seraphims; 1884 (Revised) the seraphim.] 2. By Christian interpreters the seraphim were from an early period supposed to be a class of angels, and the name, associated with that of the cherubim, was introduced in the Eucharistic preface and subsequently in the Te Deum, and thus became extensively known. The presumed derivation of the word from a Hebrew root meaning ‘to burn’ (see above) led to the view that the seraphim are specially distinguished by fervour of love (while the cherubim excel in knowledge), and to the symbolic use of red as the colour appropriate to the seraphim in artistic representations. In the system of the Pseudo-Dionysius, the chief source of later angelology, the seraphim are the highest, and the cherubim the second, of the nine orders of angels. a. seraphin (obsolete exc. poetic as nonce-use), seraphim, used as plural. (Some of the early examples are ambiguous, and may belong to b.) ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > seraphim seraphimOE α. OE Cynewulf Elene 754 Syndon tu on þam, sigorcynn on swegle, þe man seraphin be naman hateð. a1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 191 Heih is þi kinestol onuppe cherubine, Biuoren ðine leoue sune wiðinnen seraphine. c1250 Meid. Maregrete lxxv Cherubin ant serafin, a þousend þer were. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 104 Cherubin and Seraphin an al þe foure [the B and C texts have nine] ordres. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. viii. 34 Seraphyn is a multytude of angellis that is to vnderstonde: brennynge other settynge a fyre..and the propre offyce of thyse angels is to brenne in theymselfe and to moeue other to brenne in the loue of god. a1400 Ipotis 92 (Vernon MS.) in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 342 Þe furste ordre is Cherubin And þat oþer Seraphin. a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 21 To thee cherubyn and seraphyn cryeth with uoys with owten ceessynge. c1425 St. Mary of Oignies i. vii, in Anglia VIII. 140/3 She sawe oon of Seraphyn, þat is a brennynge aungel. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. a iv b The iiii. Tronli [orders of angels] be theys Principatus Trony Cherubyn and Seraphyn. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Mattyns f. ii Cherubin, and Seraphin. 1642 R. Watson Serm. Schisme 32 The first place or degree is given to the Angels of love, which are termed Seraphin. 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 287 What is it that makes the Seraphin burn and flame above the rest of the Angelical Orders? 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 74 You shall..ay, press in Where faint the fledge~foot seraphin. β. OE Andreas (1932) 719 Cheruphim et Seraphim þa on swegeldreamum syndon nemned.a1500 Adrian & Epotys 92 in Brome Bk. 28 The secund ordyr is secheraphym.1645 J. Milton At Solemn Musick in Poems 22 Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow.a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 498 The angels..are..here called Seraphims from burning, or fiery Spirits.a1826 R. Heber Hymns Weekly Church Service (1827) 114 The sound which thou heardst was the Seraphim's song!1829 S. T. Coleridge Monody Death Chatterton (rev. ed.) in Poet. Wks. 15 Thou..The triumph of redeeming Love dost hymn..to harps of Seraphim.1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) ix. 533 Like the Seraphim, they are seen in adoring love, about His throne.1871 D. G. Rossetti Ave in Poems 104 And from between the seraphim The glory issues for a hymn. †b. Taken as the name of an angel. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > name of specific angel cherub?c1225 seraphima1300 a1300 Cursor Mundi 22600 Þan sal quak sant cherubin, And alsua sal do seraphin. a1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 37 Michaell and Gabrielle and Raphaelle, cherubyn and seraphyn, and all þe oþer angells and archangells. c. Plural. †seraphins, seraphims (now rare). ΚΠ α. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 9415 Þe silloure full of Seraphens & othire sere halows. c1420 Virgin's Compl. 88 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 241 I sawe angelis with gret lithe of seraphynnys order adowne gan sende. 1490 Arte & Crafte to knowe well to Dye (Caxton) 22 The cherubyns and the syraphyns come to thyne helpe. ?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce 73 These were their names,..Angels, Arch-angels,..Powers, Cherubines, and Seraphines. 1596 E. Spenser Fowre Hymnes 94 Those eternall burning Seraphins, Which from their faces dart out fierie light. a1610 T. Rogers Leycesters Ghost (1641) 25 Know that the Prince of Heavenly Seraphines..Was tumbled downe for his presumptuous sinne. 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory sig. e7 All the strings Of Seraphins tun'd high, lowd Hymnes did play. 1649 R. Lovelace Elegy on Princess Katherine 51 Clap wings with Seraphins before the Throne. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 76 The Seraphins resound it. β. [a1382 [see sense 1]. ]a1627 J. Beaumont Epiphany in Bosworth-field (1629) 61 Who..trie our actions in that searching fire, By which the Seraphims our lips inspire.1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. ii. 16 The joy is so great that it runs over and wets the fair brows and beauteous locks of Cherubims and Seraphims.1675 J. Sharp Serm. ii, in Wks. (1754) I. 58 To know and be known by angels, arch-angels, and seraphims.a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 201 Seraphims, whose Mold is heav'nly Love, Who nearest to the Godhead wait above.a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) III. 291 God, in whose presence the highest seraphims annihilate themselves.1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty iv. 23 From flowers as white as seraphims' breath. d. seraphin, seraphim as a singular = one of the seraphim, a seraph. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > seraphim > seraph seraphim1579 seraph1667 α. 1579 in W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue sig. B ij The Seraphin with his fiery sword not being taken away. a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) iv. ii. 1613 No, he that would Soule's sacred Comfort wyn, must burne in pure love, like a Seraphin. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 66 She should have every thing divine That would befit a seraphin. β. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 86 We will pledge this Seraphim [viz. St. Teresa] Bowles full of richer blood [etc.].a1674 T. Traherne Poems (1966) 67 While we see What evry Seraphim above admires!1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 168 God gave not the flaming Sword, which guarded Paradise, to a Seraphim.1802 J. West Infidel Father II. 85 Or had you..blended the service of the Deity with the idolatrous worship of a seraphim.1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. Nov. (1928) II. 80 A cherubim and a seraphim come winging their way towards me.1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Mar. 314/3 Lamartine is content to be a seraphim. 3. Heraldry. †a. In Sir John Ferne's fanciful method of blazoning by ‘spirits’, the equivalent of Argent. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > metal > silver or white silver1478 argent1562 moon1572 pearl1572 seraphim1586 luna1709 crystal1830 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 144 A fosse waynee between the two starres artick and antiartick seraphines. b. The representation of a seraph.Usually, a child's head with two wings above, two below, and one on each side. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of human or divine beings > [noun] > seraph seraphim1828 1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. at Carruthers Crest, a seraphim, volant, ppr. 4. A Swedish order of knighthood. (See quot. 1784.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > order > knighthood > other orders Order of the Holy Ghost1587 stole1728 seraphim1784 Legion of Honour1802 1784 H. Clark Hist. Knighthood II. 213 Sweden. The Order of the Seraphim, or of Jesus..first instituted by Magnus the IId, in the year 1334... It..lay dormant, until February 1748, when it was revived..by Frederick the First. 5. Geology. singular and collective. A fossil crustacean of the genus Pterygotus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types > fossil > member of genus Pterygotus seraphim1839 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. 606 Fig. 4 and 5 belong undoubtedly to the same animal as the Seraphim of the Old Red Sandstone. 1863 H. Woodward in Intellectual Observer IV. 229 The ‘Seraphim’, a fossil found in ‘the Arbroath paving~stone’ of Forfarshire, which from the wing-like form of some parts of the shell, and the scale or feather-like markings upon its surface, has given rise to this angelic title among the natives. 1894 Q. Rev. July 191 The giant crustaceans or arachnids known to the Scotch quarrymen as ‘Seraphim’. 6. A moth of the genus Lobophora. Also seraphim-moth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types > miscellaneous types > member of genus Lobophora (seraphim) seraphim1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 132 The Seraphim (Lobophora hexapterata, Curtis) appears in June... The small Seraphim (Lobophora sexalisata, Curtis) appears in June and August. 1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 67 In..Lobophoræ there is so large an additional lobe to the hind wing as to give them the appearance of having six wings, whence they are called ‘Seraphims’ by collectors. 1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. Index to Popular Names Seraphim Moths. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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