Such beings exhale, as it were, a celestial fragrance; their glances speak of God; the voices are eloquent in the simplest words; often they ring like some seraphic instrument revealing the secrets of the future.
Surely the seraphic perfection of young girls and young men marked with the hectic of death, is a wonderful fact worthy of the attention alike of philosophers and of heedless minds.
However, no traveler with harmony in his soul thinks of technical criticism once he steps across the threshold and walks beneath the joyous terrestrial windows of the nave and the seraphic lights of the sanctuary.
In 1562 the ashes of the Seraphic Doctor were flung into the Rhone, but there still stands in Lyons a late-Gothic church that bears his name.
A seraphic sentry adorned each buttress and at the same time increased its counterbutting force, and were agents toward the swifter grounding of the load.
The Dominicans were the cause of a new split in the Seraphic order.
Later Franciscans regarded him as the noblest embodiment of the idea of the Seraphic Order next to its founder, and celebrated the angelic purity of his personality by the title doctor seraphicus.
Peace--that doth hush the throbbing voice of life, Till through the stillness of the Poet's soul, The echoes of Seraphic harmonies Float like a spirit through the blue eterne.
Nor had Nigel changed, except that his clerical attire made him more seraphic than ever.
This enemy was the theologic idol of the period: the learned world knew him as the "seraphic Doctor"; Dante gave him an honoured place in the great poem of the Middle Ages; the Church finally enrolled him among the saints.
Seraphic pow'rs are faint "Infinite love and majesty to paint.
And may the charms of each seraphic theme Conduct thy footsteps to immortal fame!
Celestial muse, my arduous flight sustain And raise my mind to a seraphic strain!
But when these shades of time are chas'd away, And darkness ends in everlasting day, On what seraphic pinions shall we move, And view the landscapes in the realms above?
Nor will you wonder, again, at the seraphic flights of love and worship that Samuel Rutherford, who was so poisoned with sin, takes at the name and the thought of his divine Physician.
Samuel Rutherford, the author of the seraphic Letters, was born in the south of Scotland in the year of our Lord 1600.
Truly, in his case the most seraphic Saintliness was not forfeited, and we who read his books may well bless God it was so.
Hence it is that father Fray Juan Francisco de San Antonio has inserted the following narrative in his seraphic chronicle.
Those seraphic workers, learning the reason; took new charge of those souls in order to attend to them with the bread of the instruction.
But sixteen years later (namely, the year 1738, when father Fray Juan Francisco de San Antonio printed the first volume of the history of his seraphic province of Philipinas), those increases were almost doubled.
These nuns have ceased to have women's voices; the quality is at once seraphic and manly.
A strange figure is this angel, who has a father at Laon, behind the cathedral, and who anticipated by many centuries the puzzling seraphic types of the Renaissance.
To the last moments of his life he retained full possession of his mental powers and approached the confines of eternity with a seraphic smile that augured heaven.
I did not hear a word of it, so rapt was I in the contemplation of Helena's seraphic face.
He was standing with many others on the bank near the prophet, and gazing earnestly at hisseraphic countenance.
It was theseraphic Bonaventure that sat beside Thomas of Aquin in the hall of the University of Paris on the day when each of them received the insignia of the doctorate.
When Coleman perused the message he began to smile with seraphic bliss.
The evil results which follow are morally worse than the gain which may be expected, as has been found out by experience since religious of the seraphic father St. Francis have remained there.
The sick in this hospital were cared for by religious of the order of the seraphic father St. Francis, and particularly by a brother named Fray Juan Clemente.
The one was all seraphic in his ardour, the other by his wisdom was on earth a splendour of cherubic light.
Like all mediaeval frescoes dealing with St. Francis, they should be read with the Fioretti or with Dante's Paradiso, or with one of the old lives of the Seraphic Father in our hands.
It is as if the soft tread of these two women had given many of his verses their seraphic sheen and lent the mother-of-pearl opalescence to his softest poems, in which there is a secret rustling as of the folds of women's gowns.
Cosette had fallen back into the profound seraphic love; the Paradisaic abyss had opened again.
Seraphic Doctor contained in the tenth volume of his works (Quaracchi, 1902).
On his death-bed our Saint longed with all the ardour of his seraphicsoul for the sweet intercourse of Sacramental Communion.
His love of God growing in proportion, Bonaventure ultimately reached those sublime heights of contemplation which earned for him the title of Seraphic Doctor.
In the depth and clearness of his dogmatic teaching, but especially in the ardent outpourings of his seraphic soul in his devotional works, we are brought into intimate contact with his marvellous life.
Of course we should find this in all its fulness in St. Francis, but there are so many works treating of the Seraphic Patriarch that only the discovery of some entirely new aspect of his marvellous life would fully justify another.
It was this very striking characteristic which gained for him the title of Seraphic Doctor.
And indeed so exceptional were the natural and supernatural gifts of this Seraphic Doctor that Sixtus IV.
Delicate in health, and fragile in extreme to appearance, there was something almost seraphic in the delicate purity of her lovely countenance, and in the tranquil composure of her graceful manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seraphic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
