aglare

English

Etymology

a- (“on, in”) +‎ glare

Adjective

aglare (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Glaring (either verb sense)
   • 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, Act V, in The New English Theatre, London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776, Volume 6, p. 45,^[1]

     A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds,

     His eyes aglare, his hair all stiff with blood,

   • 1728, James Ralph, “The Muses’ Address to the King: an Ode” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: W. Meadows et al., 1729, p. 4,^[2]

     So, when the providential eye of heav’n’s,

     Not seen to blaze

     With dreadful majesty aglare,

     And vengeance sleeps, mankind

     Pursues its darling joys, and mocks

     The pow’r divine […]

   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies, London: Macmillan, Chapter 3, p. 82,^[3]

     Apodaca set fire to his ships […] At least, he would not let them fall into English hands. At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.

   • 1898, Henry A. Castle, “The Army Mule” in The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches, Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, p. 29,^[4]

     His eye was aglare with hate, every glance a stab.

   • 2009, Thomas Fuller, “A Legendary River Changed by Asian Ambition,” New York Times, 18 December, 2009,^[5]

     Many parts of the Mekong were once a star-gazer’s dream; now nights on the river are increasingly aglare with electricity.

Anagrams

• alegar, laager