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enlumine

enlumine verb: to illumine; to light up.

Verb

enlumine (third-person singular simple present enlumines, present participle enlumining, simple past and past participle enlumined)

  1. (obsolete) To illumine; to light up.
    • Ne is that ſame great glorious lampe of light, / That doth enlumine all theſe leſſer fyres, / In better caſe, […]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

Forms of enlumine

third-person singular presentenlumines
present participleenlumining
past participleenlumined
pastenlumined

Origin of enlumine

From Old French enluminer.

Questions about enlumine

What does enlumine mean?
Enlumine means to illumine; to light up.
What part of speech is enlumine?
Enlumine is a verb.
What is the past tense of enlumine?
The past tense of enlumine is enlumined.

Words near enlumine in the dictionary

  1. enlodging
  2. Enloe
  3. Enloes
  4. Enlow
  5. Enlows
  6. enlumine
  7. enlumined
  8. enlumines
  9. enlumining
  10. enm
  11. Enma

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