a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = prec. Hence Cherubically adv.
1607. S. Collins, Serm., 54. The sword Cherubicall that glitters afore Paradise.
1615. Sir E. Hoby, Curry-Combe for a Coxe-Combe, iii. 138. Lyra, with the rest of your Cherubicall Expositors.
1616. R. Sheldon, Miracles Antichrist., viii. 162. Why did you not call to minde the Cherubicall Angell, which in the forme of a Crucifixe, spoke to Saint Francis?
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. iv. Cherubically escorted.
Cherubim, -in, sb. see CHERUB.
