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Illume

//ɪˈluːm// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Illumination. archaic, figuratively, poetic, uncountable, usually

    "Till lo! at once broad through the gloom, / The lightnings flash’d their dread illume, / Full on a rock by copse embound, / And tore and whirl’d its ruins round; […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright. archaic, figuratively, poetic, usually

    "Laſt night of all, / When yond ſame Starre that's Weſtward from the Pole / Had made his courſe t’illume that part of Heauen / Where now it burnes, / Marcellus and my ſelfe, / The Bell then beating one."

  2. 2
    introduce light into wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of illumine.

Etymology 2

Clipping of illumine.

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