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aeonian

aeonian \aeonian\, AEonian \[AE]*o"ni*an\, a. [Gr. ?.] Eternal; everlasting; lasting for an indefinitely long time; immortal; not subject to death. Opposite of mortal. ``[AE]onian hills.''
--Tennyson.

Syn: eonian

2. of or pertaining to an eon.

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aeonian

a. (alternative spelling of eonian English)

WordNet
aeonian
  1. adj. of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) [syn: eonian]

  2. lasting for an indefinitely long period of time [syn: everlasting, eternal, lasting, eonian]

Usage examples of "aeonian".

The old bottles carried a new wine, the wine of individual personality, and specifically, of course, that of this very special young man and what he represented, not in the timeless rounds of recurrent aeonian cycles, but in current historical time.

Suburb, the area north of the Forum, once seedy but now redeveloped and upgraded since the Aeonian fire.

His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleaned away.

The crimson orange Tequila Sunrise sky was laced with smokestacks of Aeonian fluted columns, burning pyres for the wretched landscapes.

He forgot the Valley of the ashes at Exxon Petrochemical of the Damned, Dow Chemical, Texaco refinery, and standing hundreds of feet in the air atop the big iron ironclad tanks that he thought were once swimming pools for the gods to match the fluted Aeonian smokestack.

A smattering of theosophical lore, and a fondness for the speculations of such writers as Colonel Churchward and Lewis Spence concerning lost continents and primal forgotten civilisations, made Reynolds especially alert toward any aeonian relic like the unknown mummy.

And above them went the never-resting flight of the Eagle, or, if indeed it rested, then it was at some moment when, soaring into its own dominion, it found a nest exalted beyond human sight in the vast mountains of the creation natural to it, where it might repose and contemplate its aeonian wisdom.