Uriel (yOO'rēul) [key]. 1,. 2. Two descendants of Kohath. 3. Man whose daughter became mother of King Abijah of Judah. The name appears in the pseudepigrapha for an archangel. He is introduced in Milton's Paradise Lost as the angel of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Uriel - It fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coined itself Into calendar months and days. This was the lapse