aurorean

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/ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/(UK)

Definition of aurorean

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
    “1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.”
    “Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:”
    “1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton (as Owen Meredith), “Lucile”, London: Chapman and Hall, Part 2, Canto 5, stanza 16, p. 300, […] There, hover’d in light, That image aloft, o’er the shapeless and bright And Aurorean clouds, […]”
    “When the earliest dews impearled The front of all the world Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun,”
    “1896, George Santayana, Sonnet 50 in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Stone and Kimball, p. 54, Though no dawn burst, and no aurorean choir Sing GLORIA DEO when the heavens ope,”
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adj

  1. Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
    “1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.”
    “Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:”
    “1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton (as Owen Meredith), “Lucile”, London: Chapman and Hall, Part 2, Canto 5, stanza 16, p. 300, […] There, hover’d in light, That image aloft, o’er the shapeless and bright And Aurorean clouds, […]”
    “When the earliest dews impearled The front of all the world Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun,”
    “1896, George Santayana, Sonnet 50 in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Stone and Kimball, p. 54, Though no dawn burst, and no aurorean choir Sing GLORIA DEO when the heavens ope,”
  2. Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
  3. Of or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.

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Etymology

Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements auror(a) + -ean.

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