high angel

== English == === Alternative forms === high-angel === Etymology === From Middle English heh-engel, from Old English hēahengel, from Proto-West Germanic *hauhaangil (“archangel”). Cognate with German Hochengel. === Noun === high angel (plural high angels) Archangel. 1889, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary & Philosophical Society - Volumes 43-44 - Page 172: Nor, again, would anybody guess, without previous knowledge or elucidation, that a highwayman was a kind of robber, a high-head a kind of coiffare, a high-low a kind of boot, a high-man a kind of loaded die, or that, when our ancestors spoke of a high-father, a high-angel, and a high-bishop, they meant a patriarch, an archangel, and an archbishop respectively. 1965, The Islamic literature - Volume 11 - Page 31: Such a man continues to progress in this state till an imperceptible [tru]th opens between his mind and the minds of the seraphic order of high angels.