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æolian, a.|iːˈəʊlɪən|
[f. L. æoli-us adj. f. æolis or æolus + -an.]
1. Of æolis or æolia, a district of Asia Minor anciently colonized by Greeks; æolic. æolian mode in Music ‘is the ninth of the church modes.’ Grove Dict. Mus.
1589Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. x. 70 The Dorien..the Phrigien..the Lydien, and..the Eolien. 1789Burney Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. iii. 53 The æolian is grand and pompous though sometimes soothing. 1880Helmore in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 40/2 Mozart's Requiem may be said almost to begin and end with the æolian scale.
2. a. Of æolus, the mythic god of the winds; hence of, produced by, or borne on the wind, or by currents of air; aerial. æolian harp: a stringed instrument adapted to produce musical sounds on exposure to a current of air.
1605Sylvester tr. Du Bartas's Deuine Weekes & Workes [Week] II. [Day] ii. p. 399 Th' æolian Crowd obayes his mighty call, The surly surges of the waters fall. 1693Dryden Juvenal x. 293 And Eurus never such hard usage found In his Eolian Prisons underground. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 181 You melt in dulcet chords, when Zephyr rings The Eolian Harp. 1820Shelley Prom. Unb. iv. i. 188 The music of the rolling world Kindling within the strings of the waved air, æolian modulations. 1880M. D. Conway in Academy 24 Jul. 56 There is a pure aeolian quality, a music as of storms telling their secret on the strings of a heart.
b. spec. Geol., of formations produced or deposited by the action of wind.
1853R. J. Nelson in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. IX. 201 They [the Bermudas] may be placed..as a peculiar post-tertiary formation of a composite character..Neptunian below and ‘æolian’ above. Ibid. 207 (caption) Horizontal section of ‘æolian’ rock. 1879Rutley Study of Rocks xiv. 275 Rounded by attrition, the result of their transport by water, or in the case of aeolian rocks, of their transport by wind. 1889I. C. Russell in Geol. Mag. July 289 The subaërial deposits now accumulating in the arid portion of the United States may be divided into four classes: 1, Eolian Sands; 2, Talus Slopes; 3, Alluvial Cones; and 4, Calcareous Clays. 1910Encycl. Brit. XI. 656/1 Some [rocks]..are accumulated by the drifting action of wind upon loose materials, and are known as ‘aeolian’ formations. Familiar instances of such wind-formed deposits are the sand dunes along many parts of the sea coast. 1935Nature 1 June 909/1 It seems safe to conclude that the bulk of the ridge is relatively late Pleistocene in age, and that it is essentially æolian in origin. |