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Aureole Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.
The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.
(n.)
See Areola, 2.
See Areola, 2.
(n.)
A halo, actual or figurative.
A halo, actual or figurative.
(n.)
A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
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Noun
1. the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse
(synonym) corona
(hypernym) radiance, glow, glowing
(part-holonym) nimbus, nimbus cloud, rain cloud
2. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
(synonym) aura, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole
(hypernym) light, lightness
Aureole Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Halo or ring around a feature.
Halo or ring around a feature.
Aureole Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
An aureola or aureole (diminutive of Latin aurea, "golden") is the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure. In the earliest periods of Christian art it was confined to the figures of the persons of the Christian Godhead, but it was afterwards extended to the Virgin Mary and to several of the saints.
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Aureole Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
(Astronomy) A faintly colored luminous ring appearing to surround a celestial body visible through a haze or thin cloud of water vapor, especially such a ring around the moon or sun, caused by the diffraction of light from suspended matter in the intervening medium. Also referred to as Corona.
Aureole Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
Aureole [dim of Latin aureus golden] Either a special spiritual radiance adorning the heads of saints and martyrs, or a golden halo surrounding the head or whole body of a holy man. The matter is clearly explained in The Mahatma Letters as: "a counterpart of what the astronomers call the red flames in the 'corona' may be seen in Reichenbach's crystals or in any other strongly magnetic body. The head of a man -- in a strong ecstatic condition, when all the electricity of his system is centered around the brain, will represent -- especially in darkness -- a perfect simile of the Sun during such periods [eclipses]. The first artist who drew the aureoles about the heads of his Gods and Saints, was not inspired, but represented it on the authority of temple pictures and traditions of the sanctuary and the chambers of initiation where such phenomena took place" (p. 162).
