enlight

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Etymology

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From en- +‎ light.

Verb

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enlight (third-person singular simple present enlights, present participle enlighting, simple past and past participle enlighted or enlit)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
    • 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: [] W[illiam] Lewis []; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor [], T[homas] Osborn[e] [], and J[ohn] Graves [], →OCLC:
      Which from the first has shone on ages past,
      Enlights the present, and shall warm the last.
    • 1783, William Blake, An Imitation of Spencer:
      Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.
    • 1910 July, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, “The Future of the Human Race”, in Popular Science Monthly:
      Others, whether they be rich or poor, are the guides and lights of the nation, raising its tone, enlighting its difficulties, and improving its ideals.
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