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illume
/ɪˈluːm/
verb 1noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, full
VERB + ILLUME
flashes, lit
ILLUME + NOUN
empyrean, sky
PREP.
in, on, than
Definitions
verb
1
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 !
noun
1
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.
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Synonyms
verb — make lighter or brighter
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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
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How dread the thunder's peal that rolls above ! How bright the flashes that illume the sky !
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Brighter the sun illumed the suburbs, more / Ugly and absolute that shade's reproof […]
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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; […]
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The abdication of belief / Makes the behavior small – / Better an ignis fatuus / Than no illume at all.
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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 dar
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