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illume

American  
[ih-loom] / ɪˈlum /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.
illumed, illuming
  1. to illuminate.


illume British  
/ ɪˈluːm /

verb

  1. (tr) a poetic word for illuminate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of illume

First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine


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See now the morning star the sky illume!

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson

Swift as communicated rays That leap from severed suns a gloom Within whose waste no suns illume, The wingèd dream fulfilled its ways.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith

What warm and heavenly tints illume The land that lately seem'd a tomb Where thou wert left to die!

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson

Often, when seated at the play, And sonorous music lights the stage, I see the frail hand of a Fay With magic dawn illume the rage Of the dark sky.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire

It burned in other heavens with more celestial light; but it shone no longer over her path—to cheer, to comfort, to illume.

From Rachel Gray by Julia Kavanagh

To complete the parallel, blacked-out U.S. cities were illumed by what Englishmen still remember as "a bomber's moon."

From Time Magazine Archive

We see a dimly illumed underground waterfall and climb down to it for a dark thundering shower.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

And by their own wild light the gods fought on 'Neath that stupendous concave like a sky Filled and illumed with glare of bursting suns.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith

She started up in sweet surprise, And sudden joy illumed her eyes.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

And first, a wildly murmuring wind ’gan creep Shrill to his ringing ear; then tapers bright, With instantaneous gleam, illumed the vault of night.

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie

With a bright smile illuming her face she rose and held out a hand to the giant before her.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

A Hero fair, from out the dawn's bright blooming, Rides forth, illuming level shore and flood; The white and seaward plain he sets in motion, He stirs the ocean into burning blood.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves

The answer was illuming, but he never winced.

From The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Before the earliest buds   Have softly opened, heralding the May With tender light illuming the gray woods,   I shall be gone away.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean

On we flew like a whirlwind, the hoofs of the animals illuming the path with the sparks of fire they struck from the stones. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow

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