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

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

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

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

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