illume
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illume
- /ɪˈluːm/
- /ɪˈljuːm/
Rhymes with -uːm
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Clipping of illumine.
verb illumes · illuming · illumed
- To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright. Laſt night of all, / When yond ſame Starre that's Weſtward from the Pole / Had made his courſe t’illume that part of Heauen / Where now it burnes, / Marcellus and my ſelfe, / The Bell then beating one.
noun
- Illumination. Till lo! at once broad through the gloom, / The lightnings flash’d their dread illume, / Full on a rock by copse embound, / And tore and whirl’d its ruins round; […]
