单词 | illume |
释义 | illumen. poetic. rare. Illumination. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > illumination > [noun] lightingOE clearingc1380 beshining1398 burning1466 lumerc1468 tinding1497 illumination1563 illustrationa1631 luminary1645 illuminary1692 lighting up1787 illume1838 1838 J. Struthers Poet. Tales 37 The lightnings flashed their dread illume. c1882 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) III. 1069 Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). illumev. = illumine v.: almost exclusively poetic. 1. transitive. To light up; to make shining or bright, to brighten. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > illumination > illuminate [verb (transitive)] onlighteOE enlightOE alemeOE alightOE lightOE belighta1200 lightena1382 clear1382 alightenc1384 lumine1387 clarify1398 shine1398 shed1412 beamc1430 enlymec1440 illumine1447 enlumine1481 illustre1490 enclear1509 elumine1532 illuminate1535 unshadow1550 illightena1555 allumine1570 eluminate1580 unnight1594 enlighten1595 to strike up1598 illume1604 luminate1623 illustrate1625 unbenight1629 emblaze1637 burn1712 alluminate1726 lamp1808 enkindle1870 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 35 When yond same starre..Had made his course t' illume [1603 Illumine] that part of heauen Where now it burnes. 1788 J. Wolcot Peter's Pension 17 Train oil instead of wax was bid t'illume The goodly company and dancing room. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xix. 42 Pallas from a golden lamp illumed The dusky way before them. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 6 A second sun array'd in flame, To burn, to kindle, to illume. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. 104 It illumes to a greater extent the atmosphere. 2. transferred and figurative. To ‘light up’ (the face), as a smile; to enlighten or illuminate (the mind or understanding). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > enlightenment > enlighten [verb (transitive)] to open a person's eyeslOE clear1399 illumine?1499 illustrate1526 illightena1555 illuminate?1566 unblind1598 irradiate1628 unblindfold1643 to know (also learn, show, teach, tell) (a person) a thing or two1760 illumea1764 enlighten1811 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (transitive)] > assume specific facial appearance or expression > of facial expression: indicate feeling, etc. sparkle1601 illumea1764 a1764 R. Lloyd tr. Voltaire Henriade in Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 222 Descend, and with thy strong and purest light My verse illume! 1795 R. Southey Vision Maid of Orleans iii. 146 Loftier thoughts illume The enlighten'd glance. 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 311 A smile illumes The face of some. 1862 J. M. Neale Hymns Eastern Ch. (1866) 57 Till through fast-closed doors Thou camest Thy Disciples to illume. ΚΠ 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 210 Yon suns, he rears at pleasure higher, Illumes their light, and sets their flames on fire. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 363 She by this Illumes the headstrong impulse of desire. Derivatives illumed adj. ΚΠ 1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory Another Life (1857) 179 A wide illumed landscape. iˈllumer n. one who or that which illumes. ΚΠ 1854 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy (ed. 3) 384 Castor being the Illumer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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