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▪ I. aureole, n.|ˈɔːriːəʊl|
[ad. L. aureola; see prec. Cf. OF. aureole adj. ‘golden,’ mod.F. auréole n.]
1. = aureola 1.
c1220Hali Meid. 23 Þe meidenes habben upo þat [i.e. the champion's crown] a gerlaunde(sche) schinende schenre þen þe sunne, Auriole ihaten o latines ledene. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle v. iii. (1483) 93 Seynt Powle claymed by the deth that he suffred the Aureole of martirs; by gods word that he preched and taught besily he must..were also the aureole of prechours. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) lxi, Thyse thre werkes..shull haue specyall mede whyche they callen aureole. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) v. vii. 422 Glorye accedentall excellent and synguler, the whiche glorye is named and called aureole, the whiche is as moche to say as a lytell crowne. 1884Addis & Arnold Cath. Dict., Aureole..is defined as a certain accidental reward added to the essential bliss of heaven, because of the excellent victory which the person who receives it has attained during his warfare upon earth.
2. Art. Properly: The gold disc surrounding the head (or ? the whole figure) in early pictures, and denoting the glory of the personage represented; hence, applied by some to
a. The radiant circle of light depicted around the head; by others to
b. The oblong glory, or vesica, with which divine figures are surrounded.
Didron (Iconographie Chrétienne p. 109) by a strange blunder takes aureola for a diminutive of aura ‘emanation, exhalation,’ and defines it as a mantle of light emanating from and enveloping the body, as distinct from the nimbus, which he confines to the head. This definition, which reverses the historical use both of aureola and nimbus, is not accepted in France (see Littré), but has been copied by Fairholt, and various English Dictionaries.
a.1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 12 The glory round the head is properly the nimbus or aureole. 1860O. Meredith Lucile ii. vi. §2 In the light of the aureole over her head. 1871Rossetti Jenny 230 The gilded aureole In which our highest painters place Some living woman's simple face.
b.1851Didron's Chr. Iconog. (transl. by E. J. Millington) i. 107 The aureole surrounds the entire body. 1880E. Venables in Smith Dict. Chr. Antiq. s.v. Nimbus, The aureole (aureola, the golden reward of special holiness) may be defined as the nimb of the body, as the ordinary nimbus is that of the head.
3. fig. A glorifying halo.
1852J. H. Newman Univ. Educ. 363 In his beaming countenance Philip had recognized the aureol of a saint. 1861O. W. Holmes Elsie V. 344 The aureole of young womanhood had not yet begun to fade from around her. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. II. iv. 281 The aureole which the genius of Theodoric cast around his throne. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 326 Shrinking infirmity and self-contempt, hidden in a sort of aureole of revelations abundant beyond measure—that was St. Paul.
4. transf. An actual halo of radiating light; esp. in Astr. that seen in eclipses.
1857B. Taylor N. Trav. xxv. 256 All faces..tinged by the same wonderful aureole, shone as if transfigured. 1861Lytton Str. Story II. 383 There, on the threshold, gathering round her bright locks the aureole of the glorious sun, stood Amy. 1871Proctor Light Sc. 105 The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses.
5. transf. or fig. in wider sense.
1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets (1863) 89 An inseparable aureole of sweet sound. 1867M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd iv. 34 Bulstrode's ideal woman..crowned with an aureole of pale auburn hair.
6. Geol. The belt of metamorphosed rocks surrounding an igneous intrusion.
[1884A. J. Jukes-Browne Student's Handbk. Physical Geol. ii. xii. 442 By French writers the term aureole has been introduced to designate the concentric zone of metamorphosed rock which surrounds an intrusive mass of igneous rock.] 1896J. F. Kemp Handbk. Rocks 126 Aureole, the area surrounding an igneous intrusion that is affected by contact metamorphism. 1905J. Geikie Structural & Field Geol. xv. 214 The zone or aureole of altered rocks surrounding a large batholith of granite may be a mile or more in width.
▪ II. aureole, v.|ˈɔːriːəʊl|
[f. aureole n.]
trans. To encircle with or as with an aureole or halo. Chiefly in pa. pple.
1888Macm. Mag. July 188 Their forms are intertwined with rainbows and aureoled with light. 1896Mary Cowden-Clarke My Long Life 13 His seraph-like face,..aureoled by its golden hair. 1905C. Kernahan Visions 240 The cloud⁓rack which aureoled the moon. 1933L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall 258 The slanting rays of the sun aureoled it with mellow gold. |