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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