aurorean

aurorean

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/

Adjective

aurorean (comparative more aurorean, superlative most aurorean)

1. Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.

   Synonyms: auroral, dawnlike, dilucular

   • 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.

   • 1819, John Keats, “Ode to Psyche” in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820, p. 118,

     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, […]

   • 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Birthday Ode”, in Songs of the Springtides, London: Chatto and Windus, p. 119,

     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,

Translations

belonging to or resembling the dawn

References

• NED I (A–B; 1st ed., 1888), § 1 (A), page 567/3, “Aurorean, a.”