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- Brighten; vivify.
1833, John Graile, Morning and evening prayers, tr. into Engl. verse by J. Blyth , page 85:[…] Thou hast the world embrighten’d with the sky,
- The sky with stars, the stars with light on high;
- Thou hast the earth replenish’d with thy stores,
- Cloth’d it with trees, with herbs, with fruits and
- Whereof are numbers not to be express’d, [flow’rs,
- By various marks distinguish’d from the rest.
1835, Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing, The Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity, page 156:Whose garment was before indipt in blood,
- But now, embrighten’d into heav’nly flame,
- The sun itself outglitters, though he should
- Climb to the top of the celestial frame,
- And force the stars to hide themselves for shame:
- Before, that under earth was buried,
- But now above the heav’ns is carried,
- And there for ever by the angels heried.1
1848, Furlong Elizabeth S. Harris, Rest in the Church, page 22:Who that has once experienced its untroubled consolation, and afterwards, through temptations of Reason’s vanity or ungoverned thoughts, ‘left’ that ‘first love’, does not look back with a melancholy of heart which no earthly sunshines can embrighten, and no ecstatic lightning-flashes from the clouds of the mind can by a tithe repay, to the unutterable, irreparable loss!
1862, Thomas Hewlings Stockton, Frank Richard Stockton, Poems: With Autobiographic and Other Notes, page 234:The wild eagle calls shrill, on the cliff-top alone,
- As to waken the ear of the heroes above;
- While young Liberty smiles from her azure-hued throne,
- And her favorite sons bless the land that they love.
- Here the Spirit of Beauty, midst fountains and flowers,
- Has embrighten’d her colors, and painted the bowers;
- And her rosy cheeks flush, and her starry eyes shine,
- For her dwelling on earth is so like her divine!
1883, St. Claire Baddeley Welbore, Bedoueen Legends, and Other Poems, page 29:[…] “Wherefore they brought me to the King of Kings,
- “Courting encounter with this Badramoot;
- “But when I viewed the splendour of the King,
- “And saw his face embrighten, like a cloud
2004, Margaret Mary Stender, The Greening Springing, page 58:And, 0 Prophet, we hope to hear to learn of thee and thy Disciple, a word, or two, or three, to lighten up, embrighten…