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lumine

American  
[loo-min] / ˈlu mɪn /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.
lumined, lumining
  1. to illumine.


Etymology

Origin of lumine

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

Example Sentences

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Obstupuere omnes: subito quum lumine nimbus Signat iter cœlo, et radiis totum æthera complet: Collesque fluviique micant, pulsisque tenebris Lætantur sylvæ: veluti quum Luna coruscam Extendit per aperta facem.

From Gustavus Vasa and other poems by Walker, William Sidney

On June 5th was issued Compendium questionum de luce et lumine, on June 7th Walter Burley's Tractatus perbrevis de materia et forma, on June 27th Whitinton's De Heteroclitis nominibus.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

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 Hughes, Rupert

Apparet divum numen sedesque quietae quas neque concutiunt venti nec nubila nimbis aspergunt neque nix acri concreta pruina 20 cana cadens violat semperque innubilus aether integit, et large diffuso lumine rident.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

Ille procul trepido lumine signat humum: It gravis hic, et in alta ferox penetralia tendit.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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