illume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
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Dark, solemn stars, of radiance mild, His eyes illume the golden shade, And sweetest lips that never smiled The finger hushes, on them laid.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
Often, when seated at the play, And sonorous music lights the stage, I see the frail hand of a Fay With magic dawn illume the rage Of the dark sky.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
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
Swift as communicated rays That leap from severed suns a gloom Within whose waste no suns illume, The wingèd dream fulfilled its ways.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
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 Thomas Belden Butler
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
They hailed their comrades in the fight, With blazing fires illumed the night, And waged with jest and smile, As toward the lurid torches' light Rode up their chief the while.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
She laughed in a half-vexed manner at her attempts, while Livingston stood near watching, his eyes earnest, intent, his face illumed by a soft, boyish smile of quiet enjoyment.
From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Frances Parker
I came very near falling myself, for the bright hope that had illumed my mind was now extinguished; and the darkness of despondency once more set over my soul.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach
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
Dry logs and branches were found among the underwood, and these were brought forward and heaped upon the pile, until the flames blazed up, illuming the glade to its very circumference.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
Hitherto the light had been thought of as a lamp, illuming a single place; now it was to be a sun, shedding its glory upon a world.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
The answer was illuming, but he never winced.
From The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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