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

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

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

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

Then might be applied to Africa those words, originally used indeed with a different view: His demùm exactis———Devenere locos laetos, et amoena viretaFortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas;Largior hìc campos aether et lumine vestitPurpureo.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas

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

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