illume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
Example Sentences
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His merit is rather that he was able to illume chaos, darkness, and presentiments by the very indefiniteness and the vague music of his soul.
From Paul Verlaine by Zweig, Stefan
How blest its maidens! cloudless is their day, And radiant herbs illume their nightly way.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
And as I paced the lonely room, I wonder'd how that holy ray Could with its light a world illume So fill'd with falsehood and decay.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
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
And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
To complete the parallel, blacked-out U.S. cities were illumed by what Englishmen still remember as "a bomber's moon."
From Time Magazine Archive
We see a dimly illumed underground waterfall and climb down to it for a dark thundering shower.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Caverns with ice shapes, blue-tinted, translucent: Columns and altars and figures fantastic, Imagined in dreams or pictured in fever, Softly illumed by the moonlight's reflection.
From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by Pickering, James E.
No nation yet has risen o'er earth's first nature; Though love illumed each individual mind, Like some half-blind, half-formed primeval creature The State still crawled a thousand years behind.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
Discouraging as the prospect was, a ray of hope was visible; one ray yet illumed the dark future, sustaining and bracing my mind for further action.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne
A Hero fair, from out the dawn's bright blooming, Rides forth, illuming level shore and flood; The white and seaward plain he sets in motion, He stirs the ocean into burning blood.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval
All was silent without, and, illuming the landscape with silver, Fair rose the dewy moon and the myriad stars; but within doors, 980 Brighter than these, shone the faces of friends in the glimmering lamplight.
From Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by Conover, W. F.
Stars of strange and faint illuming, Reads the national magician; Stripes of gory hue adorning, All the mammoth constellation; Stripes extending down the shadow Of the shifting, warning picture.
From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
The black stone will not become the world illuming gem.
From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá
There is no way of illuming the depths of the ocean.
From The Submarine Boys on Duty Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat by Durham, Victor G.
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