enhalo

American  

[en-hay-loh] / ɛnˈheɪ loʊ /

verb (used with object)

enhaloed, enhaloing

1. to surround with or as with a halo.

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Etymology

Origin of enhalo

First recorded in 1835–45; en- ¹ + halo

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Example Sentences

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enhaloed

Heroes, with flame   Flashed up from the sword-points that cover her breast, She is guarded by Love, and enhaloed by Fame,   And never, base Foe! shall your footsteps be pressed             Where her dead Martyrs rest!

From War Poetry of the South by Various

He saw Hoopdriver walk slowly across the gateway, his head enhaloed in cigarette smoke, and pass out of sight up the street.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

You must imagine this statuesque ruffian enhaloed in the black rim of his hat, letting all this out as an old dog growls sometimes, with his head up and staring-away eyes.

From Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad

In distant lands enhaloed by old fame Thou found'st the only chain the spirit knew, But, captive, led'st thy captors from the shame Of ancient freedom, to the pride of new.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 by Various

I turned and looked down the slope of the hill to where, enhaloed now in birds, stood those other two Martians that I had seen overnight, just as death had overtaken them.

From The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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