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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