settings
Ulysses vocabulary
23 outdated vocabulary words
help & settings
[x]
-
antelucan
-
synonyms: matutinal, antemeridian, gloaming ???
tags: [rare]
► definition
Definition:before dawn or daylight---a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
photo: by Sam Jotham Sutharson, CC0gratuitous sound file: by Inspectorj, license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/https://www.freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/384188/ (original modified to reduce file size)
► uses
Uses:
"Antelucan worship."
De Quincey
---
How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour,
James Joyce. Ulysses
help with search