auroraladj.
/əˈrɔːrəl/, /əˈrɔːrl̩/, /ɔːˈrɔːrəl/, /ɔːˈrɔːrl̩/, U.S. /əˈrɔrəl/, /ɔˈrɔrəl/, /ɑˈrɔrəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the dawn, eastern; figurative of or pertaining to the rise or first period of anything.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [adjective]
auroral1554
aurorean1820
peep of day1821
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > connected with early part of anything
early1595
auroral1854
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour Prol. 148 in Wks. (1931) I Quhose donke impurpurit vestiment nocturnall..He [Phebus] lefte in tyll his regioun aurorall.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 529 To have begun the day with a..crust..like the French auroral ‘biscuit de Rheims.’
1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. ix. 361 Auroral splendours of promise..which accompany all revolutions in their earlier stages.
1878 J. Todhunter Alcestis 61 To paint the auroral mysteries of the dawn.
2. Like the dawn in colour, brightness, freshness, soft beauty, etc.; dawning, roseate, rosy.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [adjective] > like the dawn
aurora-likea1586
auroral1827
1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 326 The auroral light of Tasso.
1863 H. W. Longfellow Falcon Federigo 151 Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush.
1883 R. Noel in Academy No. 577. 365/3 A radiance in auroral spirits now.
3. Of or pertaining to the aurora (borealis).
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the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [adjective] > aurora > borealis
auroral1828
auroric1881
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1851–9 Sir J. Herschel in Adm. Man. Sc. Enq. 161 Note also the meteors..within the auroral region.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxi. 421 A true and unbroken auroral arch.
1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. xiii. 179 The extreme height of the auroral light.
4. Resembling the aurora in its coruscations.
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the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [adjective] > aurora
auroral1871
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 136 Auroral flashings of wit.
1882 F. W. H. Myers Renewal of Youth 222 Hast thou..Marked in her eyes those gleams auroral play?
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