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 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.

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

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

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

Ennius of old has observed, that lumen de lumine, to light my candle at my neighbour's lamp, is one of the privileges that the practices of civil society concede.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William

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