seraphic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to an angel of the first order

   I imagined a seraphic presence in the room.

2. 2
   adj

   Of or relating to a seraph or the seraphim.

   The Seraphic Doctor, title given to the Italian medieval theologian Bonaventure.

From Medieval Latin seraphicus, from Late Latin seraphīm, seraphīn, from Hebrew שָׂרָף (saráf, “seraph”). By surface analysis, seraph + -ic.

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