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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
illuminate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Word of God illuminateth the understanding as the light of the sun doth the world.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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But if thou sayest that (_A_) is conjoined herewith, (862) truly it is not so, but (_A_) is only manifested therein and illuminateth it; and in that case only is it called RASHITH, _Rashith_, beginning.
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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And yet neither this time of six weeks is without remedy from heauen; for the Moone with her increased light hath accesse at that time, and illuminateth the moneths lacking light euery one of themselues seuerally halfe the course of that moneth, by whose benefit it commeth to passe that the night named extreame darke possesseth those regions no longer then one moneth, neither that continually, or all at one time, but this also diuided into two sorts of shorter nights, of the which either of them indureth for the space of 15 dayes, and are illuminate of the Moone accordingly.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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