illume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
Example Sentences
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From dreams of conquest, worlds and empires won Britain awaking, mourns her setting sun, No rays of joy her evening hour illume, 'Tis one sad chaos, one unmingled gloom!
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
No rays of dawn our path illume, We are sunk together in ceaseless gloom.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
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 Butler, Thomas Belden
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)
You have shone on my house as a pair Of candles a corpse illume!
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
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