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Angelical vs Angelica - What's the difference?

angelical | angelica |

As adjectives the difference between angelical and angelica

is that angelical is belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel while angelica is .

angelical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
  • * , Romeo and Juliet , act 3, sc. 1,
    • O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
    Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
    Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical !
  • * 1869 , , The Uncommercial Traveller , ch. 20,
    • She was all angelical gentleness.
  • * 2005 , Joan Dupont, " The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones," International Herald Tribune , 21 May (retrieved 2 Nov. 2008),
  • *:"You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said.

    • Derived terms

    * angelicalness

    References

    *" angelical" at OneLook Dictionary Search . * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)

    Anagrams

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    angelica

    English

    (wikipedia angelica)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica , especially the (garden angelica) ().
  • Candied stems of the plant, used to decorate cookies.
  • Species of Aralia .

    • Synonyms

    * (plant) archangel