Middle English Dictionary Entry
a(u)nǧelīk adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | a(u)nǧelīk adj. |
| Etymology | OF angelique & L angelicus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. a(u)nǧellīch adj..
1.
(a) Resembling an angel, befitting an angel, angelic; (b) belonging or pertaining to the angels; (c) consisting of angels; (d) done by an angel; ~ salutacioun, Gabriel's salutation, the Ave Maria.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.3651 : So aungillyk sche was of hir bewte.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.2063 : Þe song of hem is..So angelik and ful of armonye.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.102 : So aungelik was hir natif beaute, That lik a thing inmortal semed she.
- ?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)161 : So aungelyk they wern off theyre ffigures.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.64 : Now was she mannyssh, now was she femynyne..Now a mermaide angelik of face.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)703 : Arystotiles was Aungelyk of nature.
- a1450(?1420) Lydg.TG (Tan 346)269 : It was a meruaile, hou euer þat nature Coude in hir werkis make a creature So aungellike, so goodli on to se.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)116/20 : Onis vpon the day to ete and drinke, it is angelik.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.IVMass (Trin-C R.3.21)154 : The stoole also..Ys of doctors the Angelyk doctryne.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)555 : Thys maner of kepyng..ys fortosey heuynly and aungelike.
- a1500(c1450) Idley Instr.(Arun 20)2.S.102 : An aungelyke face in a womans apparell.
b
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)132/30 : God..sent her the heuenly bode & angelyk sustenaunce.
c
- c1390(a1325) Ipotis (Vrn)98 : Niȝene ordres, sire, þer ben..Þe eihteþe Angelica iwis, Þe niþe ordre is Archangeli.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)146,152 : This Lord of Sabaoth Hath ostis angelik..Folk angelik, knyghthode archangelike.
d
- (?c1422) Hoccl.ASM (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)396 : Gretter ioie & gladnesse I wolde haue of a litil orisoun..As the angelyk salutacioun.
- (?a1430) Hoccl.Mir.Virg.(Hnt HM 744)12 : He yaf informacion..For to seye..The angelike salutacion L sythes in worsship..Of goddes modir.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)110/8 : She conceyued oure Saueoure Ihesus by the annunciacion angelyk.