illume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
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I often assume gayety to illume her dear sensibility with a smile, which twenty years ago almost bewitched me, and which still constitutes my highest pleasure.
From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child
There were some things that could illume his dark stretches and level Mary-Clare’s vague reachings to a common level.
From At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
See now the morning star the sky illume!
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
From morn till eve I rove along, And joys my eyes illume, If you but listen to my song, And kindly buy a broom.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
Anon the cave appeared when moonbeams would its depths illume, A fairy hall of diamond, anon, a ghastly tomb.
From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by M. Y. Halidom
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
And within my dream the hut Quickly to a ball-room changed, High on lofty pillars borne And illumed by chandeliers.
From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine
At this thought the malignant light of a fearful determination illumed his features and revealed their frightful distortion.
From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Charles M. Snyder
It had become very dark; suddenly a blaze of sheet-lightning illumed the room.
From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by William Knapp
The black stone will not become the world illuming gem.
From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá
In the midst of these encouraging omens, the sun dipped into the sea, illuming, as it fell, a wide reach of the chill and gloomy element.
From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
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 Eugenia Dunlap Potts
Now the fields are laughing; now the maids Take their pastime; laugh the leafy glades: Now the summer days are blooming, And the flowers their chaliced lamps for love illuming.
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds
Meanwhile Shah Khatun went in bridal splendour to the king's son and conceived by him and bare a son, as he were the illuming moon.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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