serai (serai)

[Formerly also serray, sarray, suray, scrauce, serahee; = Turk. saray = Ar. seray, sarāya = Hind. serãi, ne and power, and serving as me engers and ministers between heaven and earth. See the etymology. Above it [the throne of God] stood the seraphims ; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. Isa, vi. 2. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim [in the English Book, Cherubin and Seraphin ] continually do cry. Book of Common Prayer , Te Deum. The flaming seraph [Abdiel], fearle , though alone. Milton , P. L., v. 875. As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope, E ay on Man, i. 277. Order of the Seraphim, a Swedish order which was founded in the fourteenth century, or le probably in the thirteenth century, but which remained dormant for many years, until in 1748 it was reorganized as a most limited and exclusive order. The Swedish members must have been members first of the Order of the Polar Star or of that of the Sword, and on obtaining the Seraphim they become commanders in the other order. The badge is an eight Same as