relume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of relume
1595–1605; re- + (il)lume; compare French rallumer, Late Latin relūmināre. See relumine
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Ever so slowly, Con Edison found enough of it to relume sections of the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chrysler, which insists that it cannot afford higher wages, wants its Canadian employees to return to work and then relume negotiations in January, as U.S. employees have agreed to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
After hours of darkness, New Yorkers began to wonder of their city, as Othello did of doomed Desdemona, . . . where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume?
From Time Magazine Archive
Who 'mid despair's impervious gloom, Should bid her soul's sad wand'rings cease: Th' extinguish'd spark of hope relume, And sooth the penitent to peace?
From Poetic Sketches by Thomas Gent
What, Epicurus, Aristippus, tired already? 'tis too soon; ye sages, Be men; relume that erstwhile furious wrath!
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
Then shall be No lamp relumed in heaven, no voices crying, Or changing lights, or dreams and forms that hover!
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
What light of unremembered skies Hast thou relumed within our eyes, Thou whom we seek, whom we shall find?
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
Ah, he might warm his hands there still, and so Must warm his heart now in this wintry dearth, Till the reluming sunken fire should give Warmth to his ageing wits and bid him live.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
It was getting late, old Cypriano was sitting at my door, enveloped in a serapa, giving no signs of life, save the occasional reluming of the cigarillo, like a dim glow-worm, betwixt his teeth.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
I leave it to physiologists and psychologists to account for these sudden exertions of the reluming powers of the mind in the very lowest state of the dying faculties.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
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