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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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
As thou, Christ, to illume it, holdest Heaven Broadly over our heads.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Shall I tell thee now All that I think of, when, by land and sea, The days and nights illume the world for me?
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay
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 Philip Freneau
His merit is rather that he was able to illume chaos, darkness, and presentiments by the very indefiniteness and the vague music of his soul.
From Paul Verlaine by Stefan Zweig
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 Elizabeth Keckley
His lyrical strength, his passion, his terse vocabulary, his exquisite fancy and tenderness illumed every page, giving it dignity and color.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
They had been unable to see each other, except when the universe seemed illumed by the flashes of lightning.
From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid
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
The answer was illuming, but he never winced.
From The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
With a bright smile illuming her face she rose and held out a hand to the giant before her.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
Stars of strange and faint illuming, Reads the national magician; Stripes of gory hue adorning, All the mammoth constellation; Stripes extending down the shadow Of the shifting, warning picture.
From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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
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