aurorean
UK /ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/ US /ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/
adj 3
Definitions
adj
1
Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.
Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:
2
Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
3
Of or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.
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