angelic1 (anjelik)

[ Here, happy creature, fair angelic Eve. Milton , P. L., v. 74. Angelic hymn, the hymn sung by the angels after the announcement of the birth of Christ (Luke ii. 14), used in several Oriental liturgies in the earlier part of the service, and in the West in the enlarged form known as the Gloria in Excels is (except in Advent and Lent) after the introit and kyrie, and before the collect, epistle, and gospel. It retained this position in the first prayer-book of Edward VI., but it was afterward transferred to the closing part of the office as a song of thanksgiving after communion; the American Prayer-Book, however, allows the substitution of a hymn proper to the season. It is also used in the Greek Church at lauds and compline. - Angelic salu tation. See ave.