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enlight

enlight verb: to illuminate.

Verb

enlight (third-person singular simple present enlights, present participle enlighting, simple past and past participle enlighted or enlit)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
    • Which from the first has shone on ages past,
      Enlights the present, and shall warm the last.1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC
    • Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.1783, William Blake, An Imitation of Spencer

Forms of enlight

third-person singular presentenlights
present participleenlighting
past participleenlighted
pastenlighted
past participleenlit
pastenlit

Origin of enlight

From en- + light.

Questions about enlight

What does enlight mean?
Enlight means to illuminate.
What part of speech is enlight?
Enlight is a verb.
What is the past tense of enlight?
The past tense of enlight is enlighted.

Words near enlight in the dictionary

  1. enlessens
  2. enlevement
  3. enlevements
  4. enlevé
  5. enlicitide
  6. enlight
  7. enlighted
  8. enlighten
  9. enlightenable
  10. enlightened
  11. enlightened absolutism

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