aglare

a- (“on, in”) +‎ glare

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,

     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,

     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,

     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,

     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,

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

• alegar, laager