Meaning of Eoan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Eoan.
   alt-of, not-comparable
2. Relating to the dawn.
   archaic, not-comparable, poetic
3. Relating to the east; eastern.
   archaic, not-comparable, poetic

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Examples

“VVhoſe moſt adored name⟳ incloſes, / Things abſtruſe, deep and diuine. / VVhoſe yellovv treſſes ſhine, / Bright as Eoan fire. […] Bright as Eoan fire, / O me thy Prieſt inſpire!”

“Giue her th' Eoan brightnesse, / Wing'd with that subtill lightnesse, / That doth trans-pierce the Ayre; […]”

“[S]he moves unto me: / how ſvveet, hovv fair, and lovely her aſpects are? / her eyes are like⟳ bright Ioan flames ſhot thorovv me.”

“But we can note⟳ how wonderfully Pirip has woven the eoan light⟳ to recreate the images of life's grey, last⟳ sickly days […]”

“And from his Orient or Eoan vvave, / VVhere Neptune doth his ſteps in pearle engrave, / Seeing a clearer Sun i' th' VVeſt ariſe / To all his Naids and his Napæis, cries / […] / Tvvo Suns ariſe at once, and in one day / Tvvo Titans to the vvorld their lights diſplay; […]”

“Ocean vvas troubled, from th' Atlantick Vaſte / To Shores Eöan vvhere Braſilian Hills / Are cloath'd vvith Myrrh, and Trees diſtill vvith Balm.”

“[Ancient navigators] carried their commerce to Thynæ, the capital of Sinæ, on the river Senus now Camboja, in the ulterior peninsula of India, where their Eoan Ocean respects the east; circumnavigated Africa; and penetrated to the Thule, now Shetland isles: here they acquired some idea of the Mare Pigrum or Northern Ocean, which they would fain connect⟳ with the Eoan or Eastern Ocean by an extension of the Baltic […]”

“Come⟳ Thou, but lead⟳ out of the inmost cave / Of man's deep spirit, as the morning-star / Beckons the Sun from the Eoan wave⟳.”

“Armenian girls / Call⟳ him the Mithra of the middle world, / That sheds Eoan radiance on the West.”

“I believe⟳, nay, I assert with confidence and deliberation, having clearly in mind⟳ all other bedroom woes—such as hard mattress, flock pillows, scant covering, intrusive dawn, eoan bird-songs, disappointed or fatiguing love⟳, companions lapped and chrysalised in robbed blankets and close-gripped sheets, and yet turning and ever turning still—I say⟳ with deliberation, that this is the shrewdest stroke of fortune, the harshest bedroom chance, a light⟳ only extinguishable by the door.”

“But we can note⟳ how wonderfully Pirip has woven the eoan light⟳ to recreate the images of life's grey, last⟳ sickly days […]”

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