Angelic Doctor


noun
  1. an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas

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How to use Angelic Doctor in a sentence

  • The grateful Church canonized him, his treatise being the miracles he had performed, and named him the Angelic Doctor.

    A Short History of Italy | Henry Dwight Sedgwick
  • More potently than Abaelard did the Angelic Doctor employ dialectic in his finished scheme.

  • These positions of the Angelic Doctor were sharply opposed in his lifetime and afterwards.

  • His knowledge of the writings of the Angelic Doctor was so great that he was called Thomas redivivus.

    The Jesuits, 1534-1921 | Thomas J. Campbell
  • In another place, however, the Angelic Doctor declares that almsgiving is an act of charity.

    Distributive Justice | John A. (John Augustine) Ryan