archangel
noun
a chief or principal angel; in medieval angelology one of the nine orders of celestial attendants on God.
archangelic
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a word derived from
archangel.
Example Sentences
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Army Intelligence Center at Oberammergau, he has been pounding away at Communism with archangelic zeal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first who taught us knowledge hath been hurled From his once archangelic throne Into some unknown world: And thou, Azaziel!
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
This rather tickled the Master, who up till then had never considered archangelic possibilities in boxing.
From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Norman Rockwell
And youth can have something of that archangelic rigidity.
From Adam Johnstone's Son by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Rather the hills seemed to turn about me like the enormous sails of a windmill, a vast wheel of monstrous archangelic wings.
From Tremendous Trifles by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
