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Seraphim \Ser"a*phim\, n.
The Hebrew plural of {Seraph}. Cf. {Cherubim}.
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Note: The double plural form seraphims is sometimes used, as
in the King James version of the Bible, --Isa. vi. 2
and 6.
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Seraph \Ser"aph\, n.; pl. E. {Seraphs}, Heb. {Seraphim}. [Heb.
ser[=a]phim, pl.]
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. --Isa. vi. 2.
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As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns,
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. --Pope.
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{Seraph moth} (Zool.), 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.
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