Angelical

Origin

Latin angelicus, Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikos, "of or for a messenger, angel") + -al

Full definition of angelical

Adjective

1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
• circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, sc. 1,O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
• 1869, Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, ch. 20,She was all angelical gentleness.
• 2005, Joan Dupont, "The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones," International Herald Tribune, 21 May (retrieved 2 Nov. 2008),"You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said.

Derived terms

• angelicalness

Anagrams

• englacial
• galenical, Galenical