Meanings
verbenlumine (third-person singular simple present enlumines, present participle enlumining, simple past and past participle enlumined)
present singular third person enlumines · participle present enlumining · participle past enlumined · past enlumined
- obsoleteTo 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
Origin
- Old Frenchenluminer
- Englishenlumine
From Old French enluminer.
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APA
enlumine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enlumine
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“enlumine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enlumine. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
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