inaureole

present singular third person inaureoles · participle present inaureoling · participle past inaureoled · past inaureoled

1. literarytransitiveTo give (someone) a halo; to surround (someone or something) with light.

   He was girt with pale gold and inaureoled With gold about his head.

   1923, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon”, in Christopher Tolkien, editor, The Book of Lost Tales, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1984, page 204

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   Light most heavenly-human— / […] / With a sun derivèd stole / Did inaureole / All her lovely body round; […]

   1897, Francis Thompson, “[Sight and Insight.] The Mistress of Vision.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, stanza VI, page 5

   So leave we them, each head inaureoled With the awakening spring’s young sunlight-gold.

   1918, Geoffrey Bache Smith, “Glastonbury”, in A Spring Harvest, London: Erskine Macdonald, page 17

   The red, level rays of the sun came through the window behind him. He was a Viking in shabby tweeds, inaureoled in his hair.

   1920, Storm Jameson, The Happy Highways, New York: Century, Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 157

   Synonyms: halo