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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Plural of seraph.
  2. n. In entomology, the geometrid moth Lobophora halterata, or L. hexaptera: an English collectors' name. The small seraphim is L. sexalisata.
  3. n. A fossil crustacean of the genus Pterygotus, as P. anglicus: said to be so called by Scotch quarrymen, from some fancied resemblance of the creatures to their notion of seraphs.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Plural form of seraph.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The Hebrew plural of seraph. Cf. cherubim.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin seraphim, from Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (s'rafím), plural of שָׂרָף (saráf) of which the meaning is uncertain; perhaps related to the root שרף "to burn". (Wiktionary)

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  • talksiik lulz. Oct 14, 2008

  • raabia "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."

    Vladimir Nabokov
    Lolita, Chapter 1 Jul 1, 2007

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