illume
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Is illume a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (archaic, usually poetic or figurative) To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright.Examples: "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 […]"Synonyms: illuminate, illuminearchaicfigurativelypoeticusually
noun (English)
1. (archaic, usually poetic or figurative) Illumination.Examples: "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."; "What, in the glowing constellation / Of gem-thoughts studding all high aspire throughout the ages / More truly is the lamp / Lit in the illume of the empyrean / That brightest gleams / Athwart the darksome way of every questor / Intent upon the holy mount of Truth?"archaicfigurativelypoeticuncountableusually
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