lumine
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of lumine
1350–1400; Middle English luminen, aphetic variant of enluminen to illumine. See limn
Example Sentences
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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 Norway, Arthur H.
First, it covers its head in the reeds, and thinks itself all out of sight, Stat lumine clauso Ridendum revoluta caput, creditque latere Quæ non ipsa videt.
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward
It was a spring midnight and the college roofs were wonderful under the quivering moon—or tremulo sub lumine, as he remembered it.
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
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 Addison, Joseph
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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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 Cassels, Walter Richard
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