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English
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lumine (third-person singular simple present lumines, present participle lumining, simple past and past participle lumined)
- (obsolete) To illuminate.
- 16th century, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne Of Heavenly Love
- Compar'd to that celestiall beauties blaze,
Whose glorious beames all fleshly sense doth daze
With admiration of their passing light,
Blinding the eyes, and lumining the spright
1944, The Lamp, volumes 26-30, page 53:When canned foods pall, a rifle is a handy bolsterer of the meat supply in this land of wild game; when, in the lonely night, the two geologists have talked through every subject in their ken, a book lumined by a gasoline lamp is a real diversion.
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Interlingua
Pronunciation
Noun
lumine (plural lumines)
- light
Latin
Noun
lūmine
- ablative singular of lūmen