lumine

American  

[loo-min] / ˈlu mɪn /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

lumined, lumining

1. to illumine.

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Etymology

Origin of lumine

1350–1400; Middle English luminen, aphetic variant of enluminen to illumine. See limn

Example Sentences

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lumine lumined

Coming out of a church one time in which unlighted candles were ostentatiously displayed, I was forcibly reminded of an hieroglyphical of Quarles—an extinguished taper,—and under it the words, "Sine lumine inane."

From Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various

Whom the flame and its cheering light and genial warmth no longer bless, him the smoke stifles; for the spark is inextinguishable, save by death:— 'nigro circumvelatus amictu Maeret Hymen, fumantque atrae sine lumine taedae'.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The sea is all a-shimmer, "Splendet tremulo sub lumine pontus"; the deserted cloister of the Certosa has the colour of old carved ivory; the Castiglione on the hilltop shines like steel.

From Naples Past and Present by Arthur H. Norway

Martial has a pretty Epigram on this Subject:   Crine ruber, niger ore, brevis pede, lumine loesus:   Rem magnam proestas, Zoile, si bonus es.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison

The march movement is followed by an interlude depicting the mystery of night, as Virgil says, "tremulo sub lumine."

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

What study is like Nature's lumined page, So glorious with perfect excellence, That like the flowing of a mighty wind It fills the crevices and deeps of soul!

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Walter Richard Cassels