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parhelion|pɑːˈhiːlɪən|
Pl. parhelia |-ɪə|, rarely -ions. Also 7 parelion, (pl. (erron.) -elias, -helia's), 8 parelium, -helium; also β. 7 parelius, -elios, -helius, pl. -elii, -helii; γ. 7 parelie.
[a. L. parēlion, a. Gr. παρήλιον, also παρήλιος, f. παρα- beside + ἥλιος sun. Early forms represent also the latinized parēlius, parēlium, and F. parélie (1547 in Hatz.-Darm.). The insertion of h, after Gr. ἥλιος hēlios, is later.]
1. A spot on a solar halo at which the light is intensified (usually at the intersection of two halos or bands of light), often prismatically coloured, and sometimes dazzlingly bright, formerly supposed to be a reflected image of the sun; a mock sun.
Two or more parhelia are usually seen at once, on a level with and on opposite sides of the sun, and sometimes vertically above and below it.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. iii. xxv, Glistring Parelies or other meteors. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love xii. (1700) 61 As absurd as it were for a Persian to offer his Sacrifice to a Parhelion (as the Greeks call that Meteor) instead of adoring the Sun. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. ii. 71 The Sunne reflecting upon a cloud produces a Parelius, or a representation of his owne glory. 1661Boyle Style of Script. 259 As parhelions [1675 parrhelions] to the sun. 1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 220 At the two extremities..appeared two Parhelia's or Mock-suns. 1706Phillips, Parelium or Parhelium, a Mock Sun. 1721W. Whiston in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 213 Two plain Parhelia, or Mock-Suns. 1780Von Troil Iceland 55 The parhelions are observed in Iceland chiefly at the approach of the Greenland ice. 1878Nares Polar Sea I. xii. 301 A fine circular prismatic halo was seen round the sun with a distinct prismatic parhelion at the usual distance on each side and above it.
2. fig. Applied to a fainter image or reflection of something else.
1647T. Goodwin Wks. (1861) III. 277 Parhelii, and resemblances, and shadows of those thoughts the mind secretly conceives and forms. 1683J. Scott Chr. Life (1699) V. 341 Only the parhelius or reflection of the visible glory of him. 1867Draper Amer. Civ. War I. xxxiii. 563 The sky was full of parhelions of delusive glory.
Hence parheliacal |pɑːhiːˈlaɪəkəl|, parhelic |pɑːˈhiːlɪk or -ˈhɛlɪk| adjs., pertaining to or resembling a parhelion.
parheliacal ring or parhelic circle, a horizontal circle of light passing through the sun, seen in connexion with halos, with parhelia at certain points on it.
1839Bailey Festus xxxii. (1852) 546 Parheliacal gods which mocked men's minds. 1890Chambers' Encycl. V. 524/2 The Parhelic circle, which is a white circle passing through the sun and parallel with the horizon. |