inaureole
English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]inaureole (third-person singular simple present inaureoles, present participle inaureoling, simple past and past participle inaureoled)
- (transitive, literary) To give (someone) a halo; to surround (someone or something) with light.
- 1897, Francis Thompson, “[Sight and Insight.] The Mistress of Vision.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, stanza VI, page 5:
- Light most heavenly-human— / […] / With a sun derivèd stole / Did inaureole / All her lovely body round; […]
- 1918, Geoffrey Bache Smith, “Glastonbury”, in A Spring Harvest[1], London: Erskine Macdonald, page 17:
- So leave we them, each head inaureoled
With the awakening spring’s young sunlight-gold.
- 1920, Storm Jameson, The Happy Highways[2], New York: Century, Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 157:
- The red, level rays of the sun came through the window behind him. He was a Viking in shabby tweeds, inaureoled in his hair.
- 1923, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon”, in Christopher Tolkien, editor, The Book of Lost Tales[3], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1984, page 204:
- He was girt with pale gold and inaureoled
With gold about his head.