illume
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
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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
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
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 Baudelaire, Charles
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 Halidom, M. Y.
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)
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