Eoan

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Etymology

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Two parasailors enjoying the Eoan view (sense 1) at Langkawi off the coast of Kedah, Malaysia.

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Eoan (not comparable) (archaic, poetic)

  1. Relating to the dawn.
    Synonyms: auroral, aurorean, dilucular
    Coordinate terms: vespertinal, vespertine
  2. Relating to the east; eastern.
    • 1642, Will[iam] Wishartt, “Melpomene”, in Immanuel: Or The Mistery of God, Manifested in the Flesh. [], London: [] R. Hodgkinsonne, for Philip Nevill [], →OCLC, canto 6 (The Triumph), page 208:
      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; []
    • 1720, J[ohn] Bulkeley, “Book II”, in The Last-Day. A Poem, [], London: [] J. Peele, []; R. King, []; C[harles] Rivington, []; and W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood [], →OCLC, page 81:
      Ocean vvas troubled, from th' Atlantick Vaſte / To Shores Eöan vvhere Braſilian Hills / Are cloath'd vvith Myrrh, and Trees diſtill vvith Balm.
    • 1813, Robert Mayo, “Preliminary. Progress and Extent of Ancient Geography.”, in A View of Ancient Geography, and Ancient History. [], Philadelphia, Pa.: John F[anning] Watson, []; A. Fagan printer, →OCLC, part I (Natural Geography), page 3:
      [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 []
    • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to Liberty”, in Prometheus Unbound [], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier [], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 221:
      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.
    • 1827, [Henry Taylor], Isaac Comnenus. [], London: John Murray, [], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 129:
      Armenian girls / Call him the Mithra of the middle world, / That sheds Eoan radiance on the West.

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  1. ^ Eoan, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.
  2. ^ eoan, adj.”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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