illumine

verb

1. (also, figuratively, literary, transitive)Synonym of illuminate.

   “Laſt night of al, when yonder ſtarre that's weſtward from the pole, had made his coarſe to illumine that part of heauen. Where now it burnes, Marcellus and myself, The bell then towling one.”

   “[O]ut-flew / Millions of flaming ſwords, drawn from the thighs / Of mighty Cherubim; the ſudden blaze / Far round illumin'd hell: […]”

   “The moon ſhone faintly by intervals, through broken clouds upon the waters, illumining the white foam which burſt around, and enlightening the ſcene ſufficiently to render it viſible.”

   “Thou [Krishna, or the sun] art the being to whom heroes pray in peril of war, nor are their supplications vain when thus they pray, whether it be when thou illuminest the eastern region with thy orient light, when in thy meridian splendour, or when thou majestically descendest in the west.”

   “The pages which I have the privilege of now introducing to the world, are calculated, I trust, to illumine the dark parts of the field of morals— […]”

2. (also, figuratively, literary, transitive)Synonym of illuminate.

   “And as the bright sun glorifies the sky, / So is her face illumined with her eye; […]”

   “The ſecond property of your excellent ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled) left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the invvards to the partes extreames, it illumineth the face, vvhich as a beakon, giues vvarning to al the reſt of this little kingdom man to arme, […]”

   “Fanny’s attractions increased—increased two-fold—for the sensibility which beautified her complexion and illumined her countenance, was an attraction in itself.”

3. (figuratively, literary, transitive)Synonym of illuminate.

   “Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect, didst thou call to me, my holy and divine teacher, thou Jesus Christ, who illuminedst the spirit world with a light, which was not of this world; […]”

4. (figuratively, literary, transitive)Synonym of illuminate.
5. (figuratively, literary, transitive)Synonym of illuminate.
6. (figuratively, literary, rare, transitive)Synonym of illuminate.

   “What in me is dark / Illumine, what is low raiſe and ſupport; / That to the highth of this great Argument / I may aſſert th' Eternal Providence, / And juſtifie the wayes of God to men.”

   “This benighted mind, only illumined by a kind of miserable astuteness, and that 'cunning of the belly' which is born of want to engender avarice— […] had a pathos for his lively sympathies and his fresh heart.”

7. (figuratively, literary, transitive)Synonym of illuminate.

   “To Cato, Virgil pay'd one honeſt line; / O let my Country's Friends illumin mine!”

8. (intransitive)Synonym of illuminate.
9. (figuratively, intransitive)Synonym of illuminate.

   “To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility might have filled volumes. A dramatist, of course, has no volumes to fill. He is forced to contract. Even so, he can illumine; he can reveal enough for us to guess the rest.”

10. (figuratively, intransitive)Synonym of illuminate.

    “"Shell-shock." Our faces did not illumine so she dragged on lamely, "Anyway, he's not well."”