lumine

Verb

lumine (third-person singular simple present lumines, present participle lumining, simple past and past participle lumined)

1. (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
   • 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.1944, The Lamp, volumes 26-30, page 53