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English
Etymology
From Old French enluminer.
Verb
enlumine (third-person singular simple present enlumines, present participle enlumining, simple past and past participle enlumined)
- (obsolete) To illumine; to light up.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 185:Ne is that ſame great glorious lampe of light, / That doth enlumine all theſe leſſer fyres, / In better caſe, […]
French
Verb
enlumine
- inflection of enluminer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative