different between angelical vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From angel +? -ical.

Adjective

angelical (comparative more angelical, superlative most angelical)

1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 1,

     O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!

     Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

     Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

   • 1869, Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, chapter 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

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• Galenical, englacial, galenical

Portuguese

Etymology

From angélico +? -al.

Adjective

angelical m or f (plural angelicais, comparable)

1. angelic (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel)

   Synonym: angélico

Spanish

Adjective

angelical (plural angelicales)

1. angelic (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel)

   Synonym: angélico

Derived terms

• angelicalmente

Related terms

• ángel

Further reading

• “angelical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

Translations