lumine
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈluːmɪn/
Verb
lumine (third-person singular simple present lumines, present participle lumining, simple past and past participle lumined)
- (obsolete) To illumine.
- 16th century, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne Of Heavenly Love
- Compar'd to that celestiall beauties blaze,
Whose glorious beames all fleshly sense doth daze
With admiration of their passing light,
Blinding the eyes, and lumining the spright
- Compar'd to that celestiall beauties blaze,
- 1944, The Lamp, volumes 26-30, page 53:
- When canned foods pall, a rifle is a handy bolsterer of the meat supply in this land of wild game; when, in the lonely night, the two geologists have talked through every subject in their ken, a book lumined by a gasoline lamp is a real diversion.
- 16th century, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne Of Heavenly Love
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lumine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
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