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To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.

(Zoöl.)

Shining with a light due to any of the various causes which produce luminescence.

Alumina. Davy.

To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.

To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

One of the Illuminati.

One who, or that which, illuminates.

See Illumine.

Luminescent by exposure to light waves. -- Pho`to*lu`mi*nes"cence (#), n.

To illumine again or anew; to reillume.

To light anew; to rekindle. Shak.

Luminescence exhibited by a substance on being moderately heated. It is shown esp. by certain substances that have been exposed to the action of light or to the cathode rays. ---lu`mi*nes"cent (#), a.

To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. That beacons the darkness of heaven. Campbell.

To shine upon; to ullumine.

moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."

To illumine; to enlighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

f experience. P. Henry To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge. When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. Holland. Those that undertook…

To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine. Shak. The mountain's brow, Illumed with fluid gold. Thomson.

That which illumines or makes clear to the mind; mental or spiritual illumination; enlightenment; knowledge; information. He shall never know That I had any light of this from thee. Shak.