eoan

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of Eoan.

   But we can note how wonderfully Pirip has woven the eoan light to recreate the images of life's grey, last sickly days […]

   2015, Bill Reed, The Pipwink Papers, Melbourne, Vic.: Reed Independent, →ISBN

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   I believe, nay, I assert with confidence and deliberation, having clearly in mind all other bedroom woes—such as hard mattress, flock pillows, scant covering, intrusive dawn, eoan bird-songs, disappointed or fatiguing love, companions lapped and chrysalised in robbed blankets and close-gripped sheets, and yet turning and ever turning still—I say with deliberation, that this is the shrewdest stroke of fortune, the harshest bedroom chance, a light only extinguishable by the door.

   1935, Rose Macaulay, “Bed”, in Personal Pleasures, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, section 1 (Getting into it), page 64

alternative eoan

1. archaicnot comparablepoeticRelating to the dawn.

   Giue her th' Eoan brightnesse, / Wing'd with that subtill lightnesse, / That doth trans-pierce the Ayre; […]

   1619, Michael Drayton, “[Odes.] To the New Yeere.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC, page 59, lines 19–21

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   VVhoſe moſt adored name incloſes, / Things abſtruſe, deep and diuine. / VVhoſe yellovv treſſes ſhine, / Bright as Eoan fire. […] Bright as Eoan fire, / O me thy Prieſt inſpire!

   1601 (first performance), Thomas Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Edward White, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signatures [B4], verso – C, recto

   [S]he moves unto me: / how ſvveet, hovv fair, and lovely her aſpects are? / her eyes are like bright Ioan flames ſhot thorovv me.

   1622 May 24 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Prophetesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 36, column 1

   But we can note how wonderfully Pirip has woven the eoan light to recreate the images of life's grey, last sickly days […]

   2015, Bill Reed, The Pipwink Papers, Melbourne, Vic.: Reed Independent, →ISBN

   Synonyms: auroral, aurorean, dilucular

2. archaicnot comparablepoeticRelating to the east; eastern.

   Armenian girls / Call him the Mithra of the middle world, / That sheds Eoan radiance on the West.

   1827, [Henry Taylor], Isaac Comnenus. […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 129

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   And from his Orient or Eoan vvave, / VVhere Neptune doth his ſteps in pearle engrave, / Seeing a clearer Sun i' th' VVeſt ariſe / To all his Naids and his Napæis, cries / […] / Tvvo Suns ariſe at once, and in one day / Tvvo Titans to the vvorld their lights diſplay; […]

   1642, Will[iam] Wishartt, “Melpomene”, in Immanuel: Or The Mistery of God, Manifested in the Flesh. […], London: […] R. Hodgkinsonne, for Philip Nevill […], →OCLC, canto 6 (The Triumph), page 208

   Ocean vvas troubled, from th' Atlantick Vaſte / To Shores Eöan vvhere Braſilian Hills / Are cloath'd vvith Myrrh, and Trees diſtill vvith Balm.

   1720, J[ohn] Bulkeley, “Book II”, in The Last-Day. A Poem, […], London: […] J. Peele, […]; R. King, […]; C[harles] Rivington, […]; and W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood […], →OCLC, page 81

   [Ancient navigators] carried their commerce to Thynæ, the capital of Sinæ, on the river Senus now Camboja, in the ulterior peninsula of India, where their Eoan Ocean respects the east; circumnavigated Africa; and penetrated to the Thule, now Shetland isles: here they acquired some idea of the Mare Pigrum or Northern Ocean, which they would fain connect with the Eoan or Eastern Ocean by an extension of the Baltic […]

   1813, Robert Mayo, “Preliminary. Progress and Extent of Ancient Geography.”, in A View of Ancient Geography, and Ancient History. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: John F[anning] Watson, […]; A. Fagan printer, →OCLC, part I (Natural Geography), page 3

   Come Thou, but lead out of the inmost cave / Of man's deep spirit, as the morning-star / Beckons the Sun from the Eoan wave.

   1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to Liberty”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 221