reillumev.
/ˌriːɪˈl(j)uːm/, U.S. /ˌriɪˈlum/ Chiefly poetic.
transitive. To light up or illuminate again; to reignite.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > kindle or set alight > again
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1752 M. Browne Ess. on Universe (new ed.) iv, in Wks. & Rest of Creation 97 Are these unfathom'd Myst'ries, that we trace, True Solar Lustres, fix'd thro' vary'd Space? Whose Fires, in-pent, thick Spots have dark entomb'd, Freed by some Comets Blaze, and re-illum'd?
1793 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. (1876) I. 5 To..reillume the torch of extinguished David.
1812 P. B. Shelley Mother & Son in Poet. Wks. (1870) II. 527 The vital fire seemed reillumed.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. v. i. 15 It coils round the dry leaves and sere stalks, and a touch re-illumes it.
1878 J. A. Symonds Sonnets M. Angelo xi Reilluming memories that died.
1934 S. Sassoon Coll. Poems (1984) 213 Mindsight reillumes Here in my ruminant head the days where dust lies deep.
1998 Amer. Rec. Guide (Nexis) 1 Sept. 64 Such transparency of performance re-illumes the warhorses (‘Spring Song’, Op. 62:6 for example) and re-reveals the less familiar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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