Raphael

Definition: Raphael

Raphael

Noun

1. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520).

2. An archangel of the Hebrew tradition.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Raphael" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "God heals".

Date "Raphael" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Biographical Satire

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Raphael

Crosswords: Raphael

Meanwhile, Sally Jessy Raphael has named her new estate Apartment 4B. (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

I'm Raphael! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Sally Jessy Raphael (1985)

Rafael en Raphael (1975)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Raphael and His Age: Drawings from the Palais de Beaux-Arts, Lille (reference)

• "Old Beeswax": Raphael Semmes (reference)

• Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia (reference)

• Les Chevaliers de l'Ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siecle: Notices bio-bibliographiques publiees sous la direction de Raphael de Smedt 2e edition enti (reference)

• Toller Plays One: Transformation, Masses Man, Hoppla, We're Alive! (edited and translated with an introduction by Alan Raphael Pearlman) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Raphael Rooms, The Loggia & The Historical Museum at St. John Lateran (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

U.S. Army. Hospital Center, Riveria, Convalescent Hospital No.2, St. Raphael,France. : Hotel de Valescure- Personnel and Staff. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Dr. Raphael A. Bendove] / Bachrach. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Lame Man healed by Peter & John. / Raphael d'Urbin pinx. E. Cooper ex. J. Simon fec. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Crewmen swabbing out her XI-inch Dahlgren muzzle-loading gun, during drills at the New York Navy Yard, 1898. USS New Orleans is in the background. The original photograph was published on a color-tinted postcard by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Credit: NAVY.

Ship's officers on deck. They are Seated, left to right: First Lieutenant William E. Evans; Commander Raphael Semmes, Commanding Officer; and First Assistant Engineer Miles J. Freeman. Standing, left to right: Surgeon Francis L. Galt; Lieutenant John M. Stribling; First Lieutenant John M. Kell, Executive Officer; Lieutenant Robert T. Chapman; and First Lieutenant Becket K. Howell (Marine Corps). Credit: NAVY.

Captain Raphael Semmes, Alabama's commanding officer, standing by his ship's 110-pounder rifled gun during her visit to Capetown in August 1863. His executive officer, First Lieutenant John M. Kell, is in the background, standing by the ship's wheel. The original photograph is lightly color-tinted and mounted on a carte de visite bearing, on its reverse, the mark of E. Burmester, of Cape Town. See photo numbers NH 57256-KN for the colored image and NH 57256-A for a reproduction of the carte de visite's reverse. Credit: NAVY.

Painting by Creative Arts Studio, prepared for use in an official film on Naval history, circa the early 1960s. It depicts an imaginary meeting of some of the Confederacy's naval leaders, including (seated, left to right): Captain Franklin Buchanan, Captain Josiah Tattnall, and Commander Matthew F. Maury. Shown standing (from left to right) are Captain George N. Hollins, Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, and Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory. Credit: NAVY.

Raphael Semmes, rear admiral and brig. genl., C.S.A. / Lee Gallery, Richmond, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tobias and the Archangel Raphael. Credit: Library of Congress.

Raphael Semmes monument, Mobile, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

In October 2000, 50 FPI members detained Raphael Lakpe, the publisher of Le Populaire, a pro-RDR newspaper. (references)

Haiti

On June 1, police in the town of Belle-Anse arrested Raphael Francen, a journalist with Radio Telediffusion Jacmelienne. (references)

Gabon

The CNC also prohibited the paper's publisher, Raphael Ntoutoume Nkoghe, and editor in chief, Michel Ongoundou Loundah, from practicing journalism in the country. (references)

Economic History

Guinea-Bissau

In 1956, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was organized clandestinely by Amilcar Cabral and Raphael Barbosa. (references)

Italy

Literary achievements--such as the poetry of Petrarch, Tasso, and Ariosto and the prose of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Castiglione--exerted a tremendous and lasting influence on the subsequent development of Western civilization, as did the painting, sculpture, and architecture contributed by giants such as da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and Michelangelo. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, raping, beating, or otherwise abusing the persons in the following cases from 2000: The December beating of Traore Fousseni, his wives, and his brother-in-law; the December beating of Muslims in a mosque; the December violent dispersal of an RDR demonstration against the invalidation of Ouattara's candidacy; the December severe beating of Jean Philippe Kabore, the son of RDR Secretary General Henriette Dagri Diabate; the December rape of at least 10 arrested female protestors during RDR protests; the December beating death by presidential guards of Abou Coulibaly, RDR president Ouattara's private Secretary; the December reported torture of several persons following RDR demonstrations; the November shooting of a minibus driver and union leader; the November severe beating of a minibus driver; the October killing and injuring of hundreds of persons following the presidential elections; the October beatings of Raphael Lakpe, the publisher of the pro-RDR newspaper Le Populaire, his bodyguard, and Bakary Nimaga, chief editor of the pro-RDR newspaper Le Liberal; the September torture of 13 soldiers who allegedly participated in the attack on General Guei's residence; the September beating of students from the Federation of Students' and Schoolchildren's Organization (FESCI) on the Cocody campus; the September forcible dispersal of an RDR meeting; the July beating and torture of Soumbiala Doumbia; the May abuse of a judge; the July beatings of civilians following a military mutiny; the July forcible dispersal of demonstrators supporting statements by the French Government on candidate participation in the presidential election; the March beating in Man of a gendarme who was mistaken for a robbery suspect; the February beating of nurse Boua Keke; the February beating of singer Honore Djoman; the February beating of a university student by "Dozos" (traditional northern hunters); the February case in which police used tear gas to disperse striking workers at the Commune of Cocody City Hall; the January beating of Daoukro residents; and the January beating and kicking of students on a bus. (references)

Worker Rights

Burundi

COSYBU president Pierre-Claver Hajavandi and his brother Raphael Horumpende, who were arrested in 2000 and accused respectively of organizing a general strike and involvement in a grenade attack, were released during the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "Raphael": an engraving after raphael. Additional references.

Greek 

Ραφαήλ. (various references)

Pig Latin

aphaelray.(various references)

Romanian

o gravurã dupã rafael (an engraving after raphael). (various references)

Russian 

рафаэль (rafael). (various references)

Misspellings

"Raphael" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Grapheal, Rafal, Ralphie, Ramphele, Raphaels, Raphall, Raphanel, raphel, Raphia, Rathgael, Rathmell, Riohgail, Rophaien, Rupaul. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: earlap, raphae.

-2 letters: aleph, alpha, areal, haler, lahar, palea, paler, parae, parle, pearl, ralph, raphe.

-3 letters: alae, alar, aper, area, earl, epha, haar, hale, hare, harl, harp, heal, heap, hear, help, herl, leap, lear, lehr, pale, para, pare, peal, pear, plea, rale, rape, real, reap, rhea.

-4 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, ale, alp, ape.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: hexaplar, parhelia, pearlash.

+2 letters: phalanger, phalarope.

+3 letters: alphameric, archetypal, aspherical, hypaethral, panhandler, pearlashes, phalangers, phalaropes, pharyngeal.

+4 letters: archipelago, hyperplasia, paleography, panhandlers, paraldehyde, parenchymal, pentahedral, phalanstery, purchasable, slaphappier.

+5 letters: alphabetizer, alphanumeric, approachable, archesporial, archetypally, archetypical, archipelagic, archipelagos, calligrapher, epigraphical, geographical, hyperarousal, hyperplasias, laureateship, metaphorical, morphallaxes, paleographer, paleographic, paraldehydes, prerehearsal, procathedral, reproachable, seraphically, trophallaxes.