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  Illumine \Il*lu"mine\, v. t. [Cf. F. illuminer. See
     Illuminate.]
     To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
     [1913 Webster]

  Illumine \Il*lu"mine\, v. t. [Cf. F. illuminer. See
     Illuminate.]
     To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

  illumine
       v : make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a
           bit" [syn: light, illume, light up, illuminate]

  illumine
     vb.
     1 (synonym of en illuminate)
     2 # (lb en transitive)
     3 ## (lb en also figuratively) To shine#Verb light#Noun on
  (something).
     4 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2 act=I scene=i page=8 passage=Laſt
  night of al, when yonder ſtarre that's weſtward from the pole, had made
  his coarſe to '''illumine''' that part of heauen. Where now it burnes,
  Marcellus and myself, The bell then towling one.)
     5 ##* {RQ:Milton Paradise
  Lost|book=I|page=30|lines=663–666|passage=[O]ut-flew / Millions of
  flaming ſwords, drawn from the thighs / Of mighty Cherubim; the ſudden
  blaze / Far round '''illumin'd''' hell: (...)}
     6 ##* (RQ:Radcliffe Castles chapter=IX page=185 passage=The moon
  ſhone faintly by intervals, through broken clouds upon the waters,
  '''illumining''' the white foam which burſt around, and enlightening the
  ſcene ſufficiently to render it viſible.)
     7 ##* {quote-book|en|author=[Thomas Maurice]|authorlink=Thomas
  Maurice|chapter=Concerning the Invasion of India by (w: Semiramis),
  Queen of Assyria, as Detailed by Classical Writers; with Introductory
  Remarks Relative to the History of that Ancient Empire and Persia, as
  Given in the Poorauns. [Literal Translation of a Hymn to Creeshna, or
  the Sun, from an Ancient Irish Manuscript.]|translator=General
  Valancey|title=The History of Hindostan; Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as
  Connected with the History of the Other Great Empires of Asia, during
  the Most Ancient Periods of the World.(nb...: With Numerous Illustrative
  Engravings. By the Author of Indian
  Antiquities.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed, by) H. L.
  Galabin, for the author; and sold by T. Gardiner,(nb...: No. 19,
  Prince’s Street,
  Cavendish-Square.)|year=1798|volume=II|page=170|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtpQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA170|oclc=316557022|passage=Thou
  [(w: Krishna), or the sun] art the being to whom heroes
  pray in peril of war, nor are their supplications vain when thus they
  pray, whether it be when thou '''illuminest''' the eastern region with
  thy orient light, when in thy meridian splendour, or when thou
  majestically descendest in the west.}
     8 ##* (RQ:Longfellow Golden Legend page=28 passage=I am like a happy
  lover / Who '''illumines''' life with dreaming!)
     9 ##* (quote-book en author=attributed to
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius%20Longinus%20(philosopher)
  chapter=Part I translator=H. L. Havell
  title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Sublime location=London;
  New York, N.Y.
  publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan%20Publishers year=1890
  pages=2–3
  pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3DZ9ZmRUZ0C&pg=PA3
  oclc=977367502 passage=Skill in invention, lucid arrangement and
  disposition of facts, are appreciated not by one passage, or by two, but
  gradually manifest themselves in the general structure of a work; but a
  sublime thought, if happily timed, '''illumines''' an entire subject
  with the vividness of a lightning-flash, and exhibits the whole power of
  the orator in a moment of time.)
     10 ##* {quote-journal|en|author=Melanie McDonagh|title=Where have
  all the book illustrators gone?|newspaper=(w: The
  Independent)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231172224/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/where-have-all-the-book-illustrators-gone-6291792.html|archivedate=31
  December 2016|location=London|publisher=(w: Independent News &
  Media)|date=20 January 2012|issn=0951-9467|oclc=750496934|passage=[T]he
  possibility that illustrations could actually '''illumine''' writing and
  draw out elements of a narrative doesn’t seem to count for much any
  more.}
     11 ## (lb en also figuratively) To cause#Verb (something) to
  glow#Verb or shine with light.
     12 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis|verse=81|page=30|passage=And
  as the bright sun glorifies the sky, / So is her face '''illumined'''
  with her eye; (...)}
     13 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2
  Q1|act=IV|scene=ii|page=67|passage=The ſecond property of your excellent
  ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled)
  left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie
  and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the
  invvards to the partes extreames, it '''illumineth''' the face, vvhich
  as a beakon, giues vvarning to al the reſt of this little kingdom man to
  arme, (...)}
     14 ##* (RQ:Austen Mansfield Park chapter=VI volume=II page=133
  passage=Fanny’s attractions increased—increased two-fold—for the
  sensibility which beautified her complexion and '''illumined''' her
  countenance, was an attraction in itself.)
     15 ## (lb en figuratively)
     16 ### To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to
  adopt, or believe in the truth#Noun of, a religion, religious tenet,
  etc.
     17 ###* {quote-book|en|author=C[hristoph] C[hristian]
  Sturm|authorlink=Christoph Christian Sturm|chapter=February XXI. The
  World, the Mirror of Eternity.|translator=(w: Robert
  Huish)|title=Evening Devotions; or, The Worship of God in Spirit and in
  Truth for Every Day in the Year.(nb...: Translated from the German of C.
  C. Sturm, Author of ‘The Reflections on the Works of God.’ By Robert
  Huish, [...])|location=London|publisher=William Wright(nb...: 13, St.
  George’s Road,
  Southwark)|year=1840|page=148|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YucHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA148|oclc=1246689456|passage=Be
  perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect, didst thou call to me, my
  holy and divine teacher, thou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus, who
  '''illuminedst''' the spirit world with a light, which was not of this
  world; (...)}
     18 ### To cause (the eye#Noun) to see#Verb.
     19 ### To cause (a person#Noun or their face#Noun) to show#Verb
  enlightenment, happiness, etc.
     20 ### (lb en rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
     21 ###* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost book=I page=10 lines=22–26
  passage=What in me is dark / '''Illumine''', what is low raiſe and
  ſupport; / That to the highth of this great Argument / I may aſſert th'
  Eternal Providence, / And juſtifie the wayes of God to men.)
     22 ###* {RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia|volume=II|chapter=The Lawyer and
  the Body-snatcher|page=220|passage=This benighted mind, only
  '''illumined''' by a kind of miserable astuteness, and that 'cunning of
  the belly' which is born of want to engender avarice— (...) had a pathos
  for his lively sympathies and his fresh heart.}
     23 ### (lb en art) To decorate (a page#Noun of a manuscript#Adjective
  book#Noun) with ornamental#Adjective design#Noun.
     24 ###* {RQ:Pope 1738|dialogue=II|page=9|passage=To ''(w: Cato)'',
  ''(w: Virgil)'' pay'd one honeſt line; / O let my Country's Friends
  '''illumin''' mine!}
     25 # (lb en intransitive)
     26 ## To become bright#Adjective; to light up.
     27 ## (lb en figuratively)
     28 ### To enlighten intellectually.
     29 ###* (RQ:Woolf Common Reader chapter=Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  page=77 passage=To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and
  calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility
  might have filled volumes. A dramatist, of course, has no volumes to
  fill. He is forced to contract. Even so, he can '''illumine'''; he can
  reveal enough for us to guess the rest.)
     30 ### Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness,
  etc.
     31 ###* (RQ:West Return of the Soldier page=22
  passage="Shell-shock." Our faces did not '''illumine''' so she
  dragged on lamely, "Anyway, he's not well.")

  illumine
     vb.
     1 (synonym of en illuminate)
     2 # (lb en transitive)
     3 ## (lb en also figuratively) To shine#Verb light#Noun on
  (something).
     4 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2 act=I scene=i page=8 passage=Laſt
  night of al, when yonder ſtarre that's weſtward from the pole, had made
  his coarſe to '''illumine''' that part of heauen. Where now it burnes,
  Marcellus and myself, The bell then towling one.)
     5 ##* {RQ:Milton Paradise
  Lost|book=I|page=30|lines=663–666|passage=[O]ut-flew / Millions of
  flaming ſwords, drawn from the thighs / Of mighty Cherubim; the ſudden
  blaze / Far round '''illumin'd''' hell: (...)}
     6 ##* (RQ:Radcliffe Castles chapter=IX page=185 passage=The moon
  ſhone faintly by intervals, through broken clouds upon the waters,
  '''illumining''' the white foam which burſt around, and enlightening the
  ſcene ſufficiently to render it viſible.)
     7 ##* {quote-book|en|author=[Thomas Maurice]|authorlink=Thomas
  Maurice|chapter=Concerning the Invasion of India by (w: Semiramis),
  Queen of Assyria, as Detailed by Classical Writers; with Introductory
  Remarks Relative to the History of that Ancient Empire and Persia, as
  Given in the Poorauns. [Literal Translation of a Hymn to Creeshna, or
  the Sun, from an Ancient Irish Manuscript.]|translator=General
  Valancey|title=The History of Hindostan; Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as
  Connected with the History of the Other Great Empires of Asia, during
  the Most Ancient Periods of the World.(nb...: With Numerous Illustrative
  Engravings. By the Author of Indian
  Antiquities.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed, by) H. L.
  Galabin, for the author; and sold by T. Gardiner,(nb...: No. 19,
  Prince’s Street,
  Cavendish-Square.)|year=1798|volume=II|page=170|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtpQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA170|oclc=316557022|passage=Thou
  [(w: Krishna), or the sun] art the being to whom heroes
  pray in peril of war, nor are their supplications vain when thus they
  pray, whether it be when thou '''illuminest''' the eastern region with
  thy orient light, when in thy meridian splendour, or when thou
  majestically descendest in the west.}
     8 ##* (RQ:Longfellow Golden Legend page=28 passage=I am like a happy
  lover / Who '''illumines''' life with dreaming!)
     9 ##* (quote-book en author=attributed to
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius%20Longinus%20(philosopher)
  chapter=Part I translator=H. L. Havell
  title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Sublime location=London;
  New York, N.Y.
  publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan%20Publishers year=1890
  pages=2–3
  pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3DZ9ZmRUZ0C&pg=PA3
  oclc=977367502 passage=Skill in invention, lucid arrangement and
  disposition of facts, are appreciated not by one passage, or by two, but
  gradually manifest themselves in the general structure of a work; but a
  sublime thought, if happily timed, '''illumines''' an entire subject
  with the vividness of a lightning-flash, and exhibits the whole power of
  the orator in a moment of time.)
     10 ##* {quote-journal|en|author=Melanie McDonagh|title=Where have
  all the book illustrators gone?|newspaper=(w: The
  Independent)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231172224/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/where-have-all-the-book-illustrators-gone-6291792.html|archivedate=31
  December 2016|location=London|publisher=(w: Independent News &
  Media)|date=20 January 2012|issn=0951-9467|oclc=750496934|passage=[T]he
  possibility that illustrations could actually '''illumine''' writing and
  draw out elements of a narrative doesn’t seem to count for much any
  more.}
     11 ## (lb en also figuratively) To cause#Verb (something) to
  glow#Verb or shine with light.
     12 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis|verse=81|page=30|passage=And
  as the bright sun glorifies the sky, / So is her face '''illumined'''
  with her eye; (...)}
     13 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2
  Q1|act=IV|scene=ii|page=67|passage=The ſecond property of your excellent
  ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled)
  left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie
  and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the
  invvards to the partes extreames, it '''illumineth''' the face, vvhich
  as a beakon, giues vvarning to al the reſt of this little kingdom man to
  arme, (...)}
     14 ##* (RQ:Austen Mansfield Park chapter=VI volume=II page=133
  passage=Fanny’s attractions increased—increased two-fold—for the
  sensibility which beautified her complexion and '''illumined''' her
  countenance, was an attraction in itself.)
     15 ## (lb en figuratively)
     16 ### To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to
  adopt, or believe in the truth#Noun of, a religion, religious tenet,
  etc.
     17 ###* {quote-book|en|author=C[hristoph] C[hristian]
  Sturm|authorlink=Christoph Christian Sturm|chapter=February XXI. The
  World, the Mirror of Eternity.|translator=(w: Robert
  Huish)|title=Evening Devotions; or, The Worship of God in Spirit and in
  Truth for Every Day in the Year.(nb...: Translated from the German of C.
  C. Sturm, Author of ‘The Reflections on the Works of God.’ By Robert
  Huish, [...])|location=London|publisher=William Wright(nb...: 13, St.
  George’s Road,
  Southwark)|year=1840|page=148|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YucHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA148|oclc=1246689456|passage=Be
  perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect, didst thou call to me, my
  holy and divine teacher, thou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus, who
  '''illuminedst''' the spirit world with a light, which was not of this
  world; (...)}
     18 ### To cause (the eye#Noun) to see#Verb.
     19 ### To cause (a person#Noun or their face#Noun) to show#Verb
  enlightenment, happiness, etc.
     20 ### (lb en rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
     21 ###* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost book=I page=10 lines=22–26
  passage=What in me is dark / '''Illumine''', what is low raiſe and
  ſupport; / That to the highth of this great Argument / I may aſſert th'
  Eternal Providence, / And juſtifie the wayes of God to men.)
     22 ###* {RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia|volume=II|chapter=The Lawyer and
  the Body-snatcher|page=220|passage=This benighted mind, only
  '''illumined''' by a kind of miserable astuteness, and that 'cunning of
  the belly' which is born of want to engender avarice— (...) had a pathos
  for his lively sympathies and his fresh heart.}
     23 ### (lb en art) To decorate (a page#Noun of a manuscript#Adjective
  book#Noun) with ornamental#Adjective design#Noun.
     24 ###* {RQ:Pope 1738|dialogue=II|page=9|passage=To ''(w: Cato)'',
  ''(w: Virgil)'' pay'd one honeſt line; / O let my Country's Friends
  '''illumin''' mine!}
     25 # (lb en intransitive)
     26 ## To become bright#Adjective; to light up.
     27 ## (lb en figuratively)
     28 ### To enlighten intellectually.
     29 ###* (RQ:Woolf Common Reader chapter=Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  page=77 passage=To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and
  calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility
  might have filled volumes. A dramatist, of course, has no volumes to
  fill. He is forced to contract. Even so, he can '''illumine'''; he can
  reveal enough for us to guess the rest.)
     30 ### Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness,
  etc.
     31 ###* (RQ:West Return of the Soldier page=22
  passage="Shell-shock." Our faces did not '''illumine''' so she
  dragged on lamely, "Anyway, he's not well.")

  illumine
     vb.
     1 (synonym of en illuminate)
     2 # (lb en transitive)
     3 ## (lb en also figuratively) To shine#Verb light#Noun on
  (something).
     4 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2 act=I scene=i page=8 passage=Laſt
  night of al, when yonder ſtarre that's weſtward from the pole, had made
  his coarſe to '''illumine''' that part of heauen. Where now it burnes,
  Marcellus and myself, The bell then towling one.)
     5 ##* {RQ:Milton Paradise
  Lost|book=I|page=30|lines=663–666|passage=[O]ut-flew / Millions of
  flaming ſwords, drawn from the thighs / Of mighty Cherubim; the ſudden
  blaze / Far round '''illumin'd''' hell: (...)}
     6 ##* (RQ:Radcliffe Castles chapter=IX page=185 passage=The moon
  ſhone faintly by intervals, through broken clouds upon the waters,
  '''illumining''' the white foam which burſt around, and enlightening the
  ſcene ſufficiently to render it viſible.)
     7 ##* {quote-book|en|author=[Thomas Maurice]|authorlink=Thomas
  Maurice|chapter=Concerning the Invasion of India by (w: Semiramis),
  Queen of Assyria, as Detailed by Classical Writers; with Introductory
  Remarks Relative to the History of that Ancient Empire and Persia, as
  Given in the Poorauns. [Literal Translation of a Hymn to Creeshna, or
  the Sun, from an Ancient Irish Manuscript.]|translator=General
  Valancey|title=The History of Hindostan; Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as
  Connected with the History of the Other Great Empires of Asia, during
  the Most Ancient Periods of the World.(nb...: With Numerous Illustrative
  Engravings. By the Author of Indian
  Antiquities.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed, by) H. L.
  Galabin, for the author; and sold by T. Gardiner,(nb...: No. 19,
  Prince’s Street,
  Cavendish-Square.)|year=1798|volume=II|page=170|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtpQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA170|oclc=316557022|passage=Thou
  [(w: Krishna), or the sun] art the being to whom heroes
  pray in peril of war, nor are their supplications vain when thus they
  pray, whether it be when thou '''illuminest''' the eastern region with
  thy orient light, when in thy meridian splendour, or when thou
  majestically descendest in the west.}
     8 ##* (RQ:Longfellow Golden Legend page=28 passage=I am like a happy
  lover / Who '''illumines''' life with dreaming!)
     9 ##* (quote-book en author=attributed to
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius%20Longinus%20(philosopher)
  chapter=Part I translator=H. L. Havell
  title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Sublime location=London;
  New York, N.Y.
  publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan%20Publishers year=1890
  pages=2–3
  pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3DZ9ZmRUZ0C&pg=PA3
  oclc=977367502 passage=Skill in invention, lucid arrangement and
  disposition of facts, are appreciated not by one passage, or by two, but
  gradually manifest themselves in the general structure of a work; but a
  sublime thought, if happily timed, '''illumines''' an entire subject
  with the vividness of a lightning-flash, and exhibits the whole power of
  the orator in a moment of time.)
     10 ##* {quote-journal|en|author=Melanie McDonagh|title=Where have
  all the book illustrators gone?|newspaper=(w: The
  Independent)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231172224/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/where-have-all-the-book-illustrators-gone-6291792.html|archivedate=31
  December 2016|location=London|publisher=(w: Independent News &
  Media)|date=20 January 2012|issn=0951-9467|oclc=750496934|passage=[T]he
  possibility that illustrations could actually '''illumine''' writing and
  draw out elements of a narrative doesn’t seem to count for much any
  more.}
     11 ## (lb en also figuratively) To cause#Verb (something) to
  glow#Verb or shine with light.
     12 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis|verse=81|page=30|passage=And
  as the bright sun glorifies the sky, / So is her face '''illumined'''
  with her eye; (...)}
     13 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2
  Q1|act=IV|scene=ii|page=67|passage=The ſecond property of your excellent
  ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled)
  left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie
  and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the
  invvards to the partes extreames, it '''illumineth''' the face, vvhich
  as a beakon, giues vvarning to al the reſt of this little kingdom man to
  arme, (...)}
     14 ##* (RQ:Austen Mansfield Park chapter=VI volume=II page=133
  passage=Fanny’s attractions increased—increased two-fold—for the
  sensibility which beautified her complexion and '''illumined''' her
  countenance, was an attraction in itself.)
     15 ## (lb en figuratively)
     16 ### To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to
  adopt, or believe in the truth#Noun of, a religion, religious tenet,
  etc.
     17 ###* {quote-book|en|author=C[hristoph] C[hristian]
  Sturm|authorlink=Christoph Christian Sturm|chapter=February XXI. The
  World, the Mirror of Eternity.|translator=(w: Robert
  Huish)|title=Evening Devotions; or, The Worship of God in Spirit and in
  Truth for Every Day in the Year.(nb...: Translated from the German of C.
  C. Sturm, Author of ‘The Reflections on the Works of God.’ By Robert
  Huish, [...])|location=London|publisher=William Wright(nb...: 13, St.
  George’s Road,
  Southwark)|year=1840|page=148|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YucHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA148|oclc=1246689456|passage=Be
  perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect, didst thou call to me, my
  holy and divine teacher, thou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus, who
  '''illuminedst''' the spirit world with a light, which was not of this
  world; (...)}
     18 ### To cause (the eye#Noun) to see#Verb.
     19 ### To cause (a person#Noun or their face#Noun) to show#Verb
  enlightenment, happiness, etc.
     20 ### (lb en rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
     21 ###* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost book=I page=10 lines=22–26
  passage=What in me is dark / '''Illumine''', what is low raiſe and
  ſupport; / That to the highth of this great Argument / I may aſſert th'
  Eternal Providence, / And juſtifie the wayes of God to men.)
     22 ###* {RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia|volume=II|chapter=The Lawyer and
  the Body-snatcher|page=220|passage=This benighted mind, only
  '''illumined''' by a kind of miserable astuteness, and that 'cunning of
  the belly' which is born of want to engender avarice— (...) had a pathos
  for his lively sympathies and his fresh heart.}
     23 ### (lb en art) To decorate (a page#Noun of a manuscript#Adjective
  book#Noun) with ornamental#Adjective design#Noun.
     24 ###* {RQ:Pope 1738|dialogue=II|page=9|passage=To ''(w: Cato)'',
  ''(w: Virgil)'' pay'd one honeſt line; / O let my Country's Friends
  '''illumin''' mine!}
     25 # (lb en intransitive)
     26 ## To become bright#Adjective; to light up.
     27 ## (lb en figuratively)
     28 ### To enlighten intellectually.
     29 ###* (RQ:Woolf Common Reader chapter=Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  page=77 passage=To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and
  calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility
  might have filled volumes. A dramatist, of course, has no volumes to
  fill. He is forced to contract. Even so, he can '''illumine'''; he can
  reveal enough for us to guess the rest.)
     30 ### Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness,
  etc.
     31 ###* (RQ:West Return of the Soldier page=22
  passage="Shell-shock." Our faces did not '''illumine''' so she
  dragged on lamely, "Anyway, he's not well.")

  illumine
     vb.
     1 (synonym of en illuminate)
     2 # (lb en transitive)
     3 ## (lb en also figuratively) To shine#Verb light#Noun on
  (something).
     4 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2 act=I scene=i page=8 passage=Laſt
  night of al, when yonder ſtarre that's weſtward from the pole, had made
  his coarſe to '''illumine''' that part of heauen. Where now it burnes,
  Marcellus and myself, The bell then towling one.)
     5 ##* {RQ:Milton Paradise
  Lost|book=I|page=30|lines=663–666|passage=[O]ut-flew / Millions of
  flaming ſwords, drawn from the thighs / Of mighty Cherubim; the ſudden
  blaze / Far round '''illumin'd''' hell: (...)}
     6 ##* (RQ:Radcliffe Castles chapter=IX page=185 passage=The moon
  ſhone faintly by intervals, through broken clouds upon the waters,
  '''illumining''' the white foam which burſt around, and enlightening the
  ſcene ſufficiently to render it viſible.)
     7 ##* {quote-book|en|author=[Thomas Maurice]|authorlink=Thomas
  Maurice|chapter=Concerning the Invasion of India by (w: Semiramis),
  Queen of Assyria, as Detailed by Classical Writers; with Introductory
  Remarks Relative to the History of that Ancient Empire and Persia, as
  Given in the Poorauns. [Literal Translation of a Hymn to Creeshna, or
  the Sun, from an Ancient Irish Manuscript.]|translator=General
  Valancey|title=The History of Hindostan; Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as
  Connected with the History of the Other Great Empires of Asia, during
  the Most Ancient Periods of the World.(nb...: With Numerous Illustrative
  Engravings. By the Author of Indian
  Antiquities.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed, by) H. L.
  Galabin, for the author; and sold by T. Gardiner,(nb...: No. 19,
  Prince’s Street,
  Cavendish-Square.)|year=1798|volume=II|page=170|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtpQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA170|oclc=316557022|passage=Thou
  [(w: Krishna), or the sun] art the being to whom heroes
  pray in peril of war, nor are their supplications vain when thus they
  pray, whether it be when thou '''illuminest''' the eastern region with
  thy orient light, when in thy meridian splendour, or when thou
  majestically descendest in the west.}
     8 ##* (RQ:Longfellow Golden Legend page=28 passage=I am like a happy
  lover / Who '''illumines''' life with dreaming!)
     9 ##* (quote-book en author=attributed to
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius%20Longinus%20(philosopher)
  chapter=Part I translator=H. L. Havell
  title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Sublime location=London;
  New York, N.Y.
  publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan%20Publishers year=1890
  pages=2–3
  pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3DZ9ZmRUZ0C&pg=PA3
  oclc=977367502 passage=Skill in invention, lucid arrangement and
  disposition of facts, are appreciated not by one passage, or by two, but
  gradually manifest themselves in the general structure of a work; but a
  sublime thought, if happily timed, '''illumines''' an entire subject
  with the vividness of a lightning-flash, and exhibits the whole power of
  the orator in a moment of time.)
     10 ##* {quote-journal|en|author=Melanie McDonagh|title=Where have
  all the book illustrators gone?|newspaper=(w: The
  Independent)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231172224/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/where-have-all-the-book-illustrators-gone-6291792.html|archivedate=31
  December 2016|location=London|publisher=(w: Independent News &
  Media)|date=20 January 2012|issn=0951-9467|oclc=750496934|passage=[T]he
  possibility that illustrations could actually '''illumine''' writing and
  draw out elements of a narrative doesn’t seem to count for much any
  more.}
     11 ## (lb en also figuratively) To cause#Verb (something) to
  glow#Verb or shine with light.
     12 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis|verse=81|page=30|passage=And
  as the bright sun glorifies the sky, / So is her face '''illumined'''
  with her eye; (...)}
     13 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2
  Q1|act=IV|scene=ii|page=67|passage=The ſecond property of your excellent
  ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled)
  left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie
  and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the
  invvards to the partes extreames, it '''illumineth''' the face, vvhich
  as a beakon, giues vvarning to al the reſt of this little kingdom man to
  arme, (...)}
     14 ##* (RQ:Austen Mansfield Park chapter=VI volume=II page=133
  passage=Fanny’s attractions increased—increased two-fold—for the
  sensibility which beautified her complexion and '''illumined''' her
  countenance, was an attraction in itself.)
     15 ## (lb en figuratively)
     16 ### To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to
  adopt, or believe in the truth#Noun of, a religion, religious tenet,
  etc.
     17 ###* {quote-book|en|author=C[hristoph] C[hristian]
  Sturm|authorlink=Christoph Christian Sturm|chapter=February XXI. The
  World, the Mirror of Eternity.|translator=(w: Robert
  Huish)|title=Evening Devotions; or, The Worship of God in Spirit and in
  Truth for Every Day in the Year.(nb...: Translated from the German of C.
  C. Sturm, Author of ‘The Reflections on the Works of God.’ By Robert
  Huish, [...])|location=London|publisher=William Wright(nb...: 13, St.
  George’s Road,
  Southwark)|year=1840|page=148|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YucHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA148|oclc=1246689456|passage=Be
  perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect, didst thou call to me, my
  holy and divine teacher, thou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus, who
  '''illuminedst''' the spirit world with a light, which was not of this
  world; (...)}
     18 ### To cause (the eye#Noun) to see#Verb.
     19 ### To cause (a person#Noun or their face#Noun) to show#Verb
  enlightenment, happiness, etc.
     20 ### (lb en rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
     21 ###* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost book=I page=10 lines=22–26
  passage=What in me is dark / '''Illumine''', what is low raiſe and
  ſupport; / That to the highth of this great Argument / I may aſſert th'
  Eternal Providence, / And juſtifie the wayes of God to men.)
     22 ###* {RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia|volume=II|chapter=The Lawyer and
  the Body-snatcher|page=220|passage=This benighted mind, only
  '''illumined''' by a kind of miserable astuteness, and that 'cunning of
  the belly' which is born of want to engender avarice— (...) had a pathos
  for his lively sympathies and his fresh heart.}
     23 ### (lb en art) To decorate (a page#Noun of a manuscript#Adjective
  book#Noun) with ornamental#Adjective design#Noun.
     24 ###* {RQ:Pope 1738|dialogue=II|page=9|passage=To ''(w: Cato)'',
  ''(w: Virgil)'' pay'd one honeſt line; / O let my Country's Friends
  '''illumin''' mine!}
     25 # (lb en intransitive)
     26 ## To become bright#Adjective; to light up.
     27 ## (lb en figuratively)
     28 ### To enlighten intellectually.
     29 ###* (RQ:Woolf Common Reader chapter=Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  page=77 passage=To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and
  calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility
  might have filled volumes. A dramatist, of course, has no volumes to
  fill. He is forced to contract. Even so, he can '''illumine'''; he can
  reveal enough for us to guess the rest.)
     30 ### Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness,
  etc.
     31 ###* (RQ:West Return of the Soldier page=22
  passage="Shell-shock." Our faces did not '''illumine''' so she
  dragged on lamely, "Anyway, he's not well.")

  Illumine /ɪlˈuːmɪn/
  أنر

  illumine /ɪlˈuːmɪn/ 
  osvítit

  illumine /ɪlˈuːmɪn/ 
   [poet.] etw. erhellen, erleuchten [geh.] , ausleuchten 
     Synonyms: light up sth., illuminate sth., illume
  
   see: lighting up, illuminating, illumining, illuming, lit up, illuminated, illumined, illumed, lights up, illuminates, illumines, illumes, lit up, illuminated, illumined, illumed, unilluminated
  

  illumine /ɪlˈuːmɪn/
  1. aydınlatmak, tenvir etmek
  2. zihnini açmak

  v. 照明,点亮,启发;

     vt. 照明,点亮,启发