illumine
See also: illuminé
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French illuminer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin illūmināre.
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- (transitive) To illuminate.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[1]
- And as the bright sun glorifies the sky,
- So is her face illumined with her eye;
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 22-26,[2]
- […] what in me is dark
- Illumine, what is low raise and support;
- That, to the height of this great argument,
- I may assert Eternal Providence,
- And justify the ways of God to men.
- 1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, London: T. Hookham, Chapter 9, p. 185,[3]
- The moon shone faintly by intervals, through broken clouds upon the waters, illumining the white foam which burst around, and enlightening the scene sufficiently to render it visible.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 133:
- Fanny’s attractions increased—increased two-fold—for the sensibility which beautified her complexion and illumined her countenance, was an attraction in itself.
- 1890, H. L. Havell (translator), On the Sublime by Longinus (1st century CE), London: Macmillan, Part I, p. 3,[4]
- Skill in invention, lucid arrangement and disposition of facts, are appreciated not by one passage, or by two, but gradually manifest themselves in the general structure of a work; but a sublime thought, if happily timed, illumines an entire subject with the vividness of a lightning-flash, and exhibits the whole power of the orator in a moment of time.
- 2012, Melanie McDonagh, “Where have all the book illustrators gone?” The Independent, 20 January, 2012,[5]
- […] the possibility that illustrations could actually illumine writing and draw out elements of a narrative doesn’t seem to count for much any more.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[1]
- (intransitive, rare) To light up.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, p. 18:
- ‘Shell-shock.’ Our faces did not illumine so she dragged on lamely. ‘Anyway, he's not well.’
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, p. 18:
Translations
to illuminate
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Verb
illumine