illume

verb
/ɪˈluːm/

Etymology

Clipping of illumine.

Definitions

  1. To throw or spread light upon

    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.
    • How dread the thunder's peal that rolls above ! How bright the flashes that illume the sky !
    • Brighter the sun illumed the suburbs, more / Ugly and absolute that shade's reproof […]
  2. 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; […]
    • The abdication of belief / Makes the behavior small – / Better an ignis fatuus / Than no illume at all.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA