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

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.

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

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

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