aurorean

comparative more aurorean · superlative most aurorean

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

   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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   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:

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

   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,

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

   Synonyms: auroral, dawnlike, dilucular, eoan

2. human sciencesOf or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
3. astronomyOf or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.