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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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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

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

The Angelic Doctor was born at the castle of Rocca-Secca near Aquino, between Rome and Naples. 

From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King

He new modelled the school- divinity, and was therefore called the Angelic Doctor, and Eagle of Divines.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

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