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Webster 1913 Edition
Illume
Il-lume′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Illumed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Illuming
.] [Cf. F.
illuminer
. See Illuminate
.] To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.
Shak.
The mountain’s brow,
Illumed
with fluid gold. Thomson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Illume
ILLU'ME
Definition 2024
illume
illume
English
Verb
illume (third-person singular simple present illumes, present participle illuming, simple past and past participle illumed)
- (archaic) To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.
- c.1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I, Scene I.
- Last night of all,
- When yond same star that's westward from the pole
- Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
- Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
- The bell then beating one,--
- 1819, Samuel Mcpherson Janney, The last of the Lenapé, and Other Poems - Electricity:
- How dread the thunder's peal that rolls above !
- How bright the flashes that illume the sky !
- 1915, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook (vol. 109):
- At night there is no light in this building, but searchlights from distant points illume the splendid dome and the colonnades.
- c.1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I, Scene I.