lumine
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of lumine
1350–1400; Middle English luminen, aphetic variant of enluminen to illumine. See limn
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
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