seraphic

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Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling-place of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic.

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  1. Pertaining to a seraph or seraphs; angelic; celestial: as, seraphic trophies; seraphic harmonies. The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat. Milton, P. L., i. 794. Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxx.
  2. Worthy of a seraph; superhuman; pure; refined from grossness. Lloyd tells me that, three or 400 yeares ago, Chymistrey was in a greater perfection much than now. The proces was then more seraphique and universall. Now they looke only after medicines. Aubrey, Lives, Saint Dunstan. Whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends … Must never to mankind be told. Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa. Seraphic intellect and force To seize and throw the doubts of man. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cix. He has learned not only that art … is alluring, but that, when used as a means of expressing what cannot otherwise be quite revealed, it becomes seraphic. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 160.
  3. seraphic hymn the Sanctus. (See Isa. vi. 3.)
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  • She emerges from behind a flotilla of carnivorous junket junkies, their rabid eyes in pursuit as she struts to the fore, seraphic, bewitching, in white cotton dress, yellow sandals with heels. —  FSF,September2006
  • The gaunt ground, the skyey roof, the caves offering primitive shelter-all seemed a gracious natural setting for the seraphic saints around me I sat that afternoon on my blanket, hallowed by associations of past-life realizations. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • These were the kind of seraphic pleasures he took in living. —  A Circuit Rider's Wife
  • They could look both demoniacal and seraphic,--tender often, but scarcely ever true; add to this a magnificent physique_, a soft manner, a winning voice, and, what gave him an almost superstitious interest to women, that fey look attributed to the Stewarts. —  Bluebell A Novel
  • Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling-place of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. —  New Tabernacle Sermons
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  1. from French séraphique = Spanish seráfico = Portuguese seraphico = Italian serafico, from Late Latin * seraphicus, from LGr. σεραφικός, pertaining to seraphs, from σεπαφειμ, Late Latin seraphim, seraphs: see seraph.
 

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