illume

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But that idea will never illume the hearer’s brain as the lecturer’s until the hearer knows as does the lecturer what there is back of it.

From The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition by Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow)

And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

Let the sun appear! let him illume my career! it matters not where it may end.”

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

"True!" sighed the Shadow, and a softened smile Seemed to illume the coldness, void of guile, Of those phantasmal features.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

You have shone on my house as a pair Of candles a corpse illume!

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various