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angelic.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.

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Meaning & usage

adj/ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk/
  1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.

  2. Very sweet-natured, well-behaved, or beautiful.

    an angelic child
    The choir sang in angelic voices.
  3. Of or pertaining to angelic acid.

    an angelic ester
  4. A regular Hausdorff space is said to be angelic if the closure of each relatively countably compact set A is compact and the closure consists of the limits of sequences in A.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English angelly), from Old English anġelīċ, engellīċ, englelīċ, coalescing with Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”). Equivalent to angel + -ic. Doublet of angelique (“plant of the genus Angelica”) and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).

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