illume

American  

[ih-loom] / ɪˈlum /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

illumed, illuming

1. to illuminate.

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illume British  

/ ɪˈluːm /

verb

1. (tr) a poetic word for illuminate

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Other Word Forms

• unillumed adjective

Etymology

Origin of illume

First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine

Example Sentences

I often assume gayety to illume her dear sensibility with a smile, which twenty years ago almost bewitched me, and which still constitutes my highest pleasure.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

But when we meet, as here, to play at Golf, Whig, Radical, and Tory—all are off— Off the contested politics, I mean— And fun and harmony illume the scene.

From Poems on Golf by Society, Edinburgh Burgess Golfing

God pity the cheerless widow Gray, And send from the halls of Eternal Day The light of His peace to illume her way!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

And as I paced the lonely room, I wonder'd how that holy ray Could with its light a world illume So fill'd with falsehood and decay.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

The elements Pour forth their wrath in such tremendous peals, Such bolts of fiery death illume the sky, That earthly weapons seem the lesser ill.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice