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Angelic Doctor

British  

noun

  1. an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Maritain is largely responsible for the upsurge of interest in the philosophic system of the 13th Century's "Angelic Doctor."

From Time Magazine Archive

St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was 49, and the author of more than 40 thick volumes of philosophy and theology so harmonious to Catholic teaching that he became known as "the Angelic Doctor."

From Time Magazine Archive

But there are some who have been unable to convince themselves that the Angelic Doctor has made his mind entirely clear on the subject.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

He taught at Paris, Cologne, Rome, and Bologna, and became so celebrated for learning as to be known as the "Angelic Doctor."

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

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