Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, derived from, or containing gold, especially with valence 3.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to gold.
- Of or pertaining to the aura; aural. See aura.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to trivalent gold.
- adj. Of, or pertaining to the ear; aural
- adj. Pertaining to an aura.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to gold.
- adj. Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or containing or derived from gold
Etymologies
- From Latin aurum, gold.
Examples
“All gemstones work through the magic of their various colors and shades, which transmit vibrations that alter the electromagnetic fields of what we call the auric and etheric bodies, about which we sadly know very little.”
“It is seen as an oval mass of luminous mist of highly complex structure, and from its shape has sometimes been called the auric egg.”
“Or having a computer with spell check that can even recognize "auric" as a word!”
The Huffington Post: Vaishali: The Voodoos and Don'ts of American Culture
“Visualize walking into you doctor's office and seeing a "localized field of energy" and "auric chart" right next to the anatomy poster.”
The Huffington Post: Vaishali: The Voodoos and Don'ts of American Culture
“In some, I flow with discomfort, picking up the auric sparks from the fight across the road.”
“On it a mouse turned quickly to see the beginning of an auric breeze that carried the residue of the goings-on of the inhabitants of the house a half mile away.”
“Rendered with the auric exuberance of Klimt and the bold angularity of Schiele, through complicated parabolas and hyperbolas, one wonders if NASA astronomers and computer scientists aren't attempting to formulate an official visual style.”
“Moments later, the slug-like denizens of Arcturus let out a telepathic roar of approval as a tide of human rage floods at the speed of Thought across space, permeating their depleted auric channels.”
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“I can also do an auric reading which is picking up the change in colors or intensity in a person's aura.”
Margaret Ruth: Intuitive Scanning for Health: An Interview with Medical Intuitives
“After the young German doctor came to the colony she danced for him, dirty auric in the white crater.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘auric’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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soliloquy, eros, agape, solipsism, palimpsest, fabulist, lore, raconteur, harbinger, anamnesis, sattvic, comprecation and 20 more...
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xulilux's list
leviathan, destitute, iapetus, caesura, ineffable, eschew, phosphene, fungible, antediluvian, nomenclature, mottle, europa and 84 more...
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Extremely fond of adjectives. To conquer phlegmatic speech and indolent phrases.
auric, hemispherical, quadrivial, adumbral, weighty, deuced, aliquot, commendable, anterior, osculant, ferly, enceinte and 26 more...
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benevolence, lithe, aurulent, cherubic, abraxas, forlorn, lullaby, cri de coeur, inamorata, saturnine, auric, effulgence and 2 more...
milosrdenstvi Probably found somewhere on the Argentine. Nov 17, 2009