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

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Example Sentences

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lumine lumined

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

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 William Godwin

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 Joseph Addison

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 Edward Young

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 Thomas Clarkson

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 Walter Richard Cassels

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