illume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- unillumed adjective
Etymology
Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
Example Sentences
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Dark, solemn stars, of radiance mild, His eyes illume the golden shade, And sweetest lips that never smiled The finger hushes, on them laid.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
Let the sun appear! let him illume my career! it matters not where it may end.”
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
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
You have shone on my house as a pair Of candles a corpse illume!
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
No rays of dawn our path illume, We are sunk together in ceaseless gloom.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
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