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Definition: AUREOLA |
AUREOLANoun1. Alt. of Aureole |
Date "AUREOLA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
"AUREOLA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Areola, Aureole. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Aureola A circle of light, emblematical of glory, placed by the old painters round the heads of martyrs and saints. The notion was derived from Exod. xxv. 25. Facies coronam aureolam ("Thou shalt by thine own merits make for thyself a crown, besides that of gold which God has promised to the faithful") (Donne: Sermons). Strictly speaking, the glory confined to the head alone is a nimbus, and only when it envelops the entire body is it called an aureola. Du Cange informs us that the aureola of nuns is white, of martyrs red, and of doctors green. The nimbus of a Christ should contain a cross; of the Virgin Mary, a circlet of stars: of God the Father, a triangle with rays; of a living saint, a square without rays. "They say, who know the life divine, And upward gaze with eagle eyne, That by each golden crown on high, Rich with celestial jewelry, Which for our Lord's redeemed is set, There hangs a radiant coronet, All gemmed with pure and living light Too dazzling for a sinner's sight, Prepared for virgin souls, and them Who seek the martyr's diadem." Keble: Christian Year. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The aureola, when enveloping the whole body, generally appears oval or elliptical in form, but occasionally circular or quatrefoil. When it appears merely as a luminous disk round the head, it is called specifically a nimbus, while the combination of nimbus and aureole is called a glory. The strict distinction between nimbus and aureole is not commonly maintained, and the latter term is most frequently used to denote the radiance round the heads of saints, angels or persons of the Godhead.
The nimbus in Christian art appeared first in the 5th century, but practically the same device was known still earlier, though its history remains obscure, in non-Christian art. Thus (though earlier Indian and Bactrian coins do not show it) it is found with the gods on some of the coins of the Indian kings Kanishka, Huvishka and Vasudeva, 58 B.C. to A.D. 41 (Gardner's Cat. of Coins of Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India, Brit. Mus. 1886, plates 26-29). And its use has been traced through the Egyptians to the Greekss and Romanss, representations of Trajan (arch of Constantine) and Antoninus Pius (reverse of a medal) being found with it.
In the circular form the nimbus constitutes a natural and even primitive use of the idea of a crown, modified by an equally simple idea of the emanation of light from the head of a superior being, or by the meteorological phenomenon of a halo. The probability is that all later associations with the symbol refer back to an early astrological origin (compare Mithras), the person so glorified being identified with the sun and represented in the sun's image; so the aureole is the Hvareno of Mazdaism. From this early astrological use the form of "glory" or "nimbus" has been adapted or inherited under new beliefs.
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Crosswords: AUREOLA |
| Specialty definitions using "AUREOLA": Halo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "AUREOLA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (aureola, aureole, hallway), Hungarian (gas cap), Italian (aura, aureole, halo, nimbus), Spanish (aura, aureole, halo). |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infrequently confounded with "aureola," or "nimbus," a somewhat similar phenomenon worn as a head-dress by divinities and saints. The halo is a purely optical illusion, produced by moisture in the air, in the manner of a rainbow; but the aureola is conferred as a sign of superior sanctity, in the same way as a bishop's mitre, or the Pope's tiara. In the painting of the Nativity, by Szedgkin, a pious artist of Pesth, not only do the Virgin and the Child wear the nimbus, but an ass nibbling hay from the sacred manger is similarly decorated and, to his lasting honor be it said, appears to bear his unaccustomed dignity with a truly saintly grace. |
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Expression using "AUREOLA": Emberiza aureola. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aureola | 30 |
aureola hakonechloa macra | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "AUREOLA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | aureolë (aura, aureole, halo), shkëlqim (aureole, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, distinction, eclat, effulgence, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flame, glint, glitter, glory, gloss, glow, halo, irradiation, lambency, luster, lustre, nimbus, pageantry, polish, pomp, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), brerore (corona, nimbus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сияние (aureole, eradiation, flush, irradiance, irradiation, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, sheen), ореол (aureole, flare, gloriole, glory, halation, halo, nimbus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | aureola (aureole, hallway), gloriola (aureole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | auréole (aureole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dicsfény (gloriole, glory, halo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | cahaya kesucian. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fainey sollys (halo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aureolaay auréola (aureole, circle, gloriole, halo, nimbus, radiance, radiancy). (various references) aureolã (aura, beam, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus). (various references) венчик (areola, aureole, corolla, corona, coronet, egg whisk, halo), ореол (aura, aureole, gloriole, halation, halo, nimbus). (various references) oreol (aureole, halo, nimbus). (various references) strålkrans (aureole), gloria (aureole, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus). (various references) ayla (aureole, corona, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus, ring), atmosfer (atmosphere, aura, aureole), ağıl (aureole, compound, corral, cot, Cote, fold, halation, hovel, lair, pen, Pinfold, pound, sheep fold, sheep pen, stockyard, yard), hale (aureole, corona, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus, ring), ışık halkası (aureole, halo, nimbus). (various references) сяйво (aureole, flame, nimbus, refulgence, sheen), слава (aureole, celebration, celebrity, chit chat, fame, glorification, glory, luster, lustre, odor, odour, renown), шана (aureole, obeisance, observance, worship), ореол (aureole, gloriole, halation, halo, nimbus), німб (aureole, gloriole, glory, nimbus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AUREOLA": aureolae, aureolas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: areola, laurae. | |
-2 letters: areal, aurae, aural, laura, ureal. | |
-3 letters: aero, alae, alar, aloe, area, aura, earl, euro, lear, lore, lour, lure, olea, oral, orle, rale, real, role, roue, rule, urea. | |
-4 letters: aal, ala, ale, are, ear, eau, era, lar, lea, leu, oar, ole, ora, ore, our, roe, rue. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, al, ar, el, er. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: aureolae, aureolas. | |
+2 letters: evaluator, rearousal. | |
+3 letters: calcareous, cataloguer, ejaculator, equatorial, evaluators, laureation, rearousals. | |
+4 letters: adulterator, cataloguers, ejaculators, ejaculatory, emasculator, laureations, overarousal, ratatouille, revaluation, sugarloaves, unelaborate, unfavorable. | |
+5 letters: adulteration, adulterators, aeronautical, agranulocyte, allosauruses, ambulatories, argillaceous, cadaverously, calcareously, congratulate, emasculators, hyperarousal, macronuclear, overarousals, perambulator, rampageously, ratatouilles, reevaluation, renovascular, reputational, revaluations, salutatories, ultramontane, unaffordable, unpardonable, unreasonable, unreasonably, vocabularies. | |
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