inlight

English

Etymology

From Middle English inlighten, from Old English inlīhtan, , inlēohtan (“to enlighten, light up”), from Proto-Germanic *inliuhtijaną (“to lighten, illuminate”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“to shine”), equivalent to in- +‎ light. Cognate with Dutch inlichten (“to enlighten, inform”), Old High German inliuhten (“to enlighten, illuminate”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (inliuhtjan, “to enlighten, illuminate”). Compare also Middle English anlīhten, from (id.). More at in-, light.

Verb

inlight (third-person singular simple present inlights, present participle inlighting, simple past and past participle inlighted)

1. (intransitive) To shine.
2. (transitive) To give light to; enlighten.
   • 1972, Atlanta Historical Society, Atlanta historical bulletin:

     ... am not what I would wish to be a good Christian but I pray to God to inlight my mind and make me what I should be.

   • 1993, Andrew G. Tescher, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, Applications of digital image processing XV:

     ... our cooperative segmentation method is not significantly longer than -edge or -region segmentation separately while explaining the three principles in more details in the following of this paper, we will inlight this major point.

Derived terms

• inlighted

Anagrams

• hilting, lightin', lithing