auroral

Adjective

auroral (comparative more auroral, superlative most auroral)

1. Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
   • This first created light is properly the auroral light.1684, Francis Bampfield, Miqra ̕qadōsh […] A Grammatical Opening of Some Hebrew Words and Phrases, London: John Lawrence, page 36
   • This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and caroling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious.1902, William James, “Lectures 11, 12 and 13”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 266–267

   Synonyms:

   aurorean, dawnlike, dilucular, eoan

2. Rosy in colour.
   • Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush,1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Student’s Tale”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 38

   Synonyms:

   blushing, roseate

3. Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.
   • The creature brought within him an amplitude of Northern knowledge. Glacial catastrophes, snow-storm episodes, glittering auroral effects, Polaris in the zenith, Franklin underfoot,—the category of his commonplaces was wonderful.1878, Thomas Hardy, chapter 10, in The Return of the Native, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 194