nounthe sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited Etymologies from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition [Medieval Latin, from Late Latin, angel (first word of the devotion); see angel.] ...
The meaning of ANGELUS is a devotion of the Western church that commemorates the Incarnation and is said in the morning, at noon, and in the evening.
Angelus [3syll.an-ge-lus,ang-el-us] The baby boy name Angelus is pronounced asAENJHehL-ahS- †. Angelus' language of origin is Old Greek and it is predominantly used in German. Angelus is a variant form of the English, Slavic, and SpanishAngel. ...
rather than searching Benjamin's corpus for the ciphers to decode the fragments' meaning, instead focuses on the complex rhetorical structure of 'the angel of history'. It argues that an interplay between grammar and rhetoric induces a multiplication of possible interpretations, and indeed that this...