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Archangel

noun

An angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy.

A biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally. Synonyms: Angelica Archangelica, garden angelica.

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"Archangel" Quotes from Famous Books

... death and whatever follows death. It does not seem to be generally recognised that Christian thought has never been really clear concerning the Resurrection, especially in relation to future judgment. One view has been that the deceased saint lies sleeping in the grave until the archangel's trump shall sound and bid all mankind awake for the great assize. Anyone who reads the New Testament without prejudice will see that this was Paul's earlier view, although later on he changed it for another. There is a good deal of our current, everyday religious phraseology which ...

— The New Theology • R. J. Campbell

... and blessed by strange women. Sweet also is it for the far-away man to recognise a new son or a new brother in the wanderer whom he has received. I remember one night at the remote village of Seraphimo in Archangel Government, how a peasant put both hands on my shoulders and, looking into my eyes, exclaimed, "How like he is ...

— A Tramp's Sketches • Stephen Graham

... wouldn't be," said Jim, laughing. "If you begin life as an archangel, how would you settle down to being a ...

— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... appearance that they are almost flying. Each angel is separate from the rest, but the whole are twisted and twined together in a complicated manner, and are most exquisitely chiselled, even in the minutest part. The wonder is how the sculptor reached the inner portion of the group. The archangel Michael forms the ...

— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux

... of distinguished family, belonging to the Green faction, named Basianus, had incurred the Empress's displeasure by speaking of her in sarcastic terms. Hearing that she was incensed against him, he fled for refuge to the church of St. Michael the Archangel. Theodora immediately sent the Praetor of the people to seize him, bidding him charge him, however, not with insolence towards herself, but with the crime of sodomy. The magistrate, having dragged him from the church, subjected him to such intolerable torments, that ...

— The Secret History of the Court of Justinian • Procopius

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