angelic

• angelick (obsolete)

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.

• enPR: ăn-jĕlʹ-ĭk, IPA^(key): /ænˈdʒɛlɪk/

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angelic (comparative more angelic, superlative most angelic)

1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
2. Very sweet-natured or well-behaved.

   an angelic child

3. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to angelic acid.

   an angelic ester

4. (topology) 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.

• (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel): angelical, angellike, angelly, heavenly, divine

• angelicness

• Galenic, galenic