illume

verb

1. (archaic, figuratively, poetic, usually)To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright.

   “Laſt night of all, / When yond ſame Starre that's Weſtward from the Pole / Had made his courſe t’illume that part of Heauen / Where now it burnes, / Marcellus and my ſelfe, / The Bell then beating one.”

   “How dread the thunder's peal that rolls above ! How bright the flashes that illume the sky !”

   “Brighter the sun illumed the suburbs, more / Ugly and absolute that shade's reproof […]”

   “At night there is no light in this building, but searchlights from distant points illume the splendid dome and the colonnades.”

noun

1. (archaic, figuratively, poetic, uncountable, usually)Illumination.

   “Till lo! at once broad through the gloom, / The lightnings flash’d their dread illume, / Full on a rock by copse embound, / And tore and whirl’d its ruins round; […]”

   “The abdication of belief / Makes the behavior small – / Better an ignis fatuus / Than no illume at all.”

   “What, in the glowing constellation / Of gem-thoughts studding all high aspire throughout the ages / More truly is the lamp / Lit in the illume of the empyrean / That brightest gleams / Athwart the darksome way of every questor / Intent upon the holy mount of Truth?”

   “The silver on the leaves, the clover in the mist, / The light Acadian troll of winging lutanist; / Along an orchard’s path the fireweed’s orange flare, / Upon a mood’s gloom the illume of turquoise air.”