enhalo

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ halo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪləʊ

Verb

enhalo (third-person singular simple present enhalos or enhaloes, present participle enhaloing, simple past and past participle enhaloed)

1. (transitive) To surround something with a halo.
   • 1880, C. J., “Winter and Summer”, in The Sunday Magazine; For Family Reading, London: Isbister and Company Limited:

     Does not every bird's eye in its sapphire excellence recall a trusty bénédicité, "speed well,"—the story of lives compressed in two words? Smiles and tears enhalo it, and it surely accelerates our buoyancy of movement to the rivulet, where forget-me-nots—a treasure trove—are garrisoned by King Cup and Spear-grass.

   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 284:

     I turned and looked down the slope of the hill to where, enhaloed now in birds, stood those other two Martians that I had seen over-night, just as death had overtaken them.