illume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
Example Sentences
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Theodora herself, with breathless anxiety, was the first to bring a torch, that might perhaps illume the pale ghastly features of him on whom she had centered all her felicity.
From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de
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
To error’s joyless waste betrayed; No light will there illume thy road, No friendly voice will give thee aid.
From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various
But when we meet, as here, to play at Golf, Whig, Radical, and Tory—all are off— Off the contested politics, I mean— And fun and harmony illume the scene.
From Poems on Golf by Society, Edinburgh Burgess Golfing
The elements Pour forth their wrath in such tremendous peals, Such bolts of fiery death illume the sky, That earthly weapons seem the lesser ill.
From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice
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