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enlumined

enlumined is the simple past and past participle of enlumine.

Meaning of enlumine

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

Questions about enlumined

What is enlumined the simple past and past participle of?
Enlumined is the simple past and past participle of enlumine.

Words near enlumined in the dictionary

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

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