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HALOED
Verb
haloed
simple past tense and past participle of halo
Adjective
haloed (not comparable)
encircled with a halo
Source: Wiktionary
Ha"loed, a.
Definition: Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. Some haloed face bending over me. C. Bronté.
HALO
Ha"lo, n.; pl. Halos(. Etym: [L. halos, acc. halo, Gr. volvere, and E. voluble.]
1. A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
2. A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
3. An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
4. A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
Ha"lo, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Haloed; p. pr. & vb. n. Haloing.]
Definition: To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo. The fire That haloed round his saintly brow. Sothey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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