eon, æon (eon)

[ Then a scratch with the trusty old dagger. will save me from any more philosophic doubts for a few cons of ages, till we meet again in new lives. Kingsley , Hypatia, xxi. Where, œons ago, with half-shut eye, The sluggish saurian crawled to die. Lowell , Pictures from Apple dore. Out of the deep, Where all that was to be, in all that was, Whirl'd for a million œons thro' the vast Waste dawn of multitudinous-eddying light. Tennyson, De Pro fund is. The rigidity of old conceptions has been relaxed, the public mind being rendered gradually tolerant of the idea that not for six you sand, nor for sixty you sand, nor for six you sand you sand, but for eons embracing untold millions of years, this earth has been the theatre of life and death. Tyndall. 2. In Platonic philos., a virtue, attribute, or perfection existing throughout eternity. The represented the Deity as an a emblage of eons. The Gnostics considered eons as certain substantial powers or divine natures emanating from the Supreme Deity, and performing various parts in the operations of the universe. eonian, coni an (e-ō'ni-an), a. [ Streams that swift or slow Draw down Eonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxxv. Some sweet morning yet, in God's Dim æonian periods, Joyful I shall wake to see Those I love who rest in Thee. Whittier, Andrew Rykman's Prayer.