illume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
Example Sentences
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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
Let the sun appear! let him illume my career! it matters not where it may end.”
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
See now the morning star the sky illume!
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius
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
She is no longer the sprightly body she was when her very presence illumed the White House with gayety.
From Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth
It had become very dark; suddenly a blaze of sheet-lightning illumed the room.
From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by Knapp, William
Light from the sanctuary illumed the past, the present, and the future.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon
He stood there as he stood that day on the carriage that bore Robert Burnham to his death, the light of heroism in his eyes, the glow of splendid faith illuming his face.
From Burnham Breaker by Greene, Homer
With a bright smile illuming her face she rose and held out a hand to the giant before her.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
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 Evans, L.
The black stone will not become the world illuming gem.
From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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 Jowett, John Henry
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