| 释义 |
‖ aureola|ɔːˈriːələ|
[L., fem. (sc. corona) of adj. aureolus golden, prop. ‘somewhat golden,’ dim. of aureus, f. aurum gold. In sense 1 taken as equivalent to coronula ‘little crown,’ as to which see quot. 1626.]
1. Mediæval and R.C. Ch. The celestial crown won by a martyr, virgin, or doctor, as victor over the world, the flesh, or the devil; the special degree of glory which distinguishes these.
(According to Josephus Angles in Du Cange, the aureola or coronula of virgins is white, that of martyrs red, that of doctors green.)
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 348/1 The vyrgyns shall haue the crowne that is callyd Aureola. 1626Donne Serm. (1640) 743 Because in their Translation, in the Vulgat Edition of the Roman Church, they find in Exodus xxv. 25 that word Aureolam. Facies Coronam aureolam, Thou shalt make a lesser Crowne of gold; out of this diminutive, and mistaken word, they have established a Doctrine, that besides those Coronæ aureæ, Those Crowns of gold, which are communicated to all the Saints from the Crown of Christ, some Saints have made to themselves, and produced out of their owne extraordinary merits, certaine Aureolas, certaine lesser Crownes of their own..And these Aureolaes they ascribe onely to three sorts of persons, to Virgins, to Martyrs, to Doctors. 1640Canterbur. Self-Convict. Postcr. 21 That..the keeping of the three Monastick vowes doth deserve an augmentation, as ye call it, an Aureola above common happinesse. 1702Dodwell in S. Parker's Tully de Fin. B ij b, The Schoolmen themselves allow such publick Endeavours a Title to an Aureola of a Doctor.
2. = aureole n. 2, 3.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Aureola, the crown of glory, given by painters and statuaries, to saints, martyrs, and confessors. 1877Farrar Thy Youth iv. 40 Though no visible aureola gleam as yet around their brows.
3. = aureole n. 4, 5.
1871tr. Schellen's Spectr. Anal. §51. 227 The magnificent corona or aureola burst into view..round the black edge of the moon. 1884Woolson in Harper's Mag. Jan. 190/2 She floated into the..breakfast-room in an aureola of white lace. |