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illumine(dictionary)

illumine (iou)



illumine verb. Chiefly literary. ME.
[Old & mod. French illuminer from Latin illuminare ILLUMINATE verb.]
I. verb trans.
= ILLUMINATE verb 2. ME.
= ILLUMINATE verb 1. LME.
J. Steinbeck Then he lighted another cigarette, and the match illumined his dark face. E. Bowen Gas-lighting came to Dublin in 1825, in time to illumine the new premises.
b. Brighten as with light, make radiant. E16.
Shakespeare Venus & Adonis And as the bright sun glorifies the sky, So is her face illumined with her eye. R. Davies Sort of tribute from play-goers whose life he had illumined.
= ILLUMINATE verb 3. E16.
Lytton This benighted mind, only illumined by a kind of miserable astuteness.
= ILLUMINATE verb 5. E16.
II. verb intrans.
= ILLUMINATE verb 8. E16.
illuminable adjective M18.
illuminer noun LME.