inaureole

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ aureole.

Verb

inaureole (third-person singular simple present inaureoles, present participle inaureoling, simple past and past participle inaureoled)

1. (transitive, literary) To give (someone) a halo; to surround (someone or something) with light.
   • 1897, Francis Thompson, “[Sight and Insight.] The Mistress of Vision.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, stanza VI, page 5:

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

   • 1918, Geoffrey Bache Smith, “Glastonbury”, in A Spring Harvest‎^[1], London: Erskine Macdonald, page 17:

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

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

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

   • 1923, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon”, in Christopher Tolkien, editor, The Book of Lost Tales‎^[3], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1984, page 204:

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

Synonyms

• halo

Anagrams

• aurelione