lumine
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lumine (third-person singular simple present lumines, present participle lumining, simple past and past participle lumined)
- (obsolete) To illuminate.
- 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
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- “lumine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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lumine (plural lumines)
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lūmine