(n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.
(n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.
(n.) One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.
(n.) A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.
Example Sentences:
(1) The facial appearance is similar to a Renaissance cherub with its gaze toward heaven.
(2) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(3) The classic European blood libel, like many other classic European creations, had a strict set of images which must always contain a cherubic Gentile child sacrificed by those perfidious Jews, his blood to be used for ritual purposes.
(4) Golovkin, without so much as a blemish on his cherubic visage, continued to mete out punishment.
(5) This article describes the 21-year follow-up of a patient with cherubism and briefly reviews the pertinent literature.
(6) In it two grown-up cherubs seem to be flying sideways.
(7) A rare disorder involving primarily the maxillary region of the face, cherubism has a special place in the galaxy of osteolytic maxillary tumors.
(8) A family with autosomal dominant cherubism is described.
(9) Cherubism is a rare, fibroosseous lesion of the jaws that may have orbital manifestations of proptosis, lower eyelid retraction, superior globe displacement, and visual loss.
(10) We herein report on four patients with Noonan syndrome, all of whom had cherubism.
(11) A father and mother are still typically presented as the desirable norm for family life: usually portrayed laughing along with a couple of smiling, cherubic offspring.
(12) Photograph: Altitude Anton Yelchin: actor of cherubic charm who inspired huge affection | Peter Bradshaw Read more Yelchin, a fluent Russian speaker, was eager to speak about Russian literature, to which he said he felt connected, to its “mood, the emotional nature … The things I read in Crime and Punishment,” he continued, “I don’t know if it’s because it’s Russian, or because it’s Dostoevsky and everyone reads him and says ‘Holy fucking shit!’, but in terms of being proud of a cultural heritage, that’s what I’m proud of.
(13) The bilateral character of the lesions in this last patient led us to evoke the diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism and cherubism.
(14) Cherubism is a benign hereditary giant-cell lesion of the mandibular and maxillary spongiosa which appears during childhood between the age of 2 and 5 years and progresses until puberty when it spontaneously regresses.
(15) A case of cherubism of the mandible with an atypical history and with the onset of the facial deformity delayed until after puberty has been reported.
(16) Cherubism is a very rare, inherited autosomal-dominant disease, affecting mostly the mandible.
(17) Three cases of cherubism not previously recorded in the literature are described.
(18) A classification for cherubism is proposed and the difficulty in diagnosis of unilateral cases is discussed.
(19) Homogenous bone grafts were used in 20 cases including cysts, nonunions, an open bite, an ameloblastoma, fibrous dysplasia, and cherubism.
(20) But the fact that half of the country were trying to match-make a 21-year-old stretched cherub and that middle-aged lothario in the first place is pretty upsetting.
Cherubim
Definition:
(n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.
(pl. ) of Cherub
Example Sentences:
(1) In fairness to Ms Williams, as we picture her hovering over our deathbeds with a retinue of homophobic cherubim, she does not conceal, as an evangelical activist, that her zeal has its origins somewhere far beyond the reach of reason and humankindness.
(2) The statue stands, arms outstretched, on the Cherubim mountain, overlooking a route pilgrims took from Constantinople to Jerusalem in ancient times.