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One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.

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  1. n. One of an order of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/celestial">celestial class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/beings">beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
  2. n. an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
  3. One of an order of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/celestial">celestial class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/beings">beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. Isa. vi. 2. As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope. Seraph moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the genus Lobophora, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.
  4. One of an order of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/celestial">celestial class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/beings">beings, each having three pairs ofwings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is representedas one of a class of angels. Isa. vi. 2.As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph thatadores and burns. Pope.Seraph moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of geometrid mothsof the genus Lobophora, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so thatthey seem to have six wings.
  5. n:100 n. an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child