illume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
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But that idea will never illume the hearer’s brain as the lecturer’s until the hearer knows as does the lecturer what there is back of it.
From The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition by Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow)
You have shone on my house as a pair Of candles a corpse illume!
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
It is evident the sun shines through a clear atmosphere beyond the cloud, or his rays would not reach and illume the lower surface of the cirro-stratus with such distinctness.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
Can one illume a leaden sky, Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high, Not one funereal glimmer pale Can one illume a leaden sky?
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
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