inaureole

From in- +‎ aureole.

inaureole (third-person singular simple present inaureoles, present participle inaureoling, simple past and past participle inaureoled)

1. (transitive, literary) To give (someone) a halo; to surround (someone or something) with light.
   • 1897, Francis Thompson, “[Sight and Insight.] The Mistress of Vision.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, stanza VI, page 5:

     Light most heavenly-human— / […] / With a sun derivèd stole / Did inaureole / All her lovely body round; […]

   • 1918, Geoffrey Bache Smith, “Glastonbury” in A Spring Harvest, London: Erskine Macdonald, p. 17,

     So leave we them, each head inaureoled

     With the awakening spring’s young sunlight-gold.

   • 1920, Storm Jameson, The Happy Highways, New York: Century, Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 157,

     The red, level rays of the sun came through the window behind him. He was a Viking in shabby tweeds, inaureoled in his hair.

   • 1923, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon” in Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984, p. 204,

     He was girt with pale gold and inaureoled

     With gold about his head.

• halo

• aurelione