enlight
English
Verb
enlight (third-person singular simple present enlights, present participle enlighting, simple past and past participle enlighted or enlit)
- (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
- 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W. Lewis […], published 1711, →OCLC:
- Which from the first has shone on ages past,
Enlights the present, and shall warm the last.
- 1783, William Blake, An Imitation of Spencer:
- Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.
- 1910 July, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, “The Future of the Human Race”, in Popular Science Monthly:
- Others, whether they be rich or poor, are the guides and lights of the nation, raising its tone, enlighting its difficulties, and improving its ideals.
Related terms
References
- “enlight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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