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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What warm and heavenly tints illume The land that lately seem'd a tomb Where thou wert left to die!
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson
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
Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb; Melt and dispel, ye spectre doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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
Can one illume a leaden sky, Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high, Not one funereal glimmer pale Can one illume a leaden sky?
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
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
Retiring, on the beach he sat, with grace And dignity illumed, where, viewing him, The virgin Princess, with amazement mark’d His beauty, and her damsels thus bespake.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
And by their own wild light the gods fought on 'Neath that stupendous concave like a sky Filled and illumed with glare of bursting suns.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Their faces are delicate, complexions transparent with a slight rosy tint, as if illumed with the dawn; the eyes dark and dreamy, sweet, innocent, and tender in their glances.
From Sielanka: An Idyll by Thomas H. Bullick
Day following day, a long-continued feast, Refulgent pedestals the walls surround, Which boys of gold with illuming torches crown'd; The polish'd oar, reflecting every ray, Blazed on the banquets with a double day.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
And I, who through my blind eyes feel the moon illuming my forest by night and the sun by day, abide in peace, so that even the wild beasts press round to hear my music.
From The ninth vibration and other stories by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck
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
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 Alfred Perceval Graves
On we flew like a whirlwind, the hoofs of the animals illuming the path with the sparks of fire they struck from the stones.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
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