See Also: archangel(medicine)
archangel(dictionary)
archangel(dictionary)

archangel (iou)



archangel noun. Also (esp. in titles) Archangel. OE.
[Anglo-Norman archangele from ecclesiastical Latin archangelus from ecclesiastical Greek arkhaggelos, from Greek arkhi- ARCH- + aggelos (see ANGEL).]
An angel of the highest rank; a member of the eighth order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, ranking directly below the principalities and above the angels (usu. in pl.). OE.
Any of various dead-nettles (genus Lamium and allied plants); esp. (more fully yellow archangel) Lamiastrum galeobdolon, a yellow-flowered woodland plant of Europe and western Asia. LME.
archan'gelic adjective of, pertaining to, or resembling archangels; of the nature of an archangel: LME.
archan'gelical adjective = archangelic M17.