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relume

[ ri-loom ]

verb (used with object)

relumed, reluming.
  1. to light or illuminate again; relumine.


relume

/ rɪˈluËm; rɪˈluËmɪn /

verb

  1. archaic.
    tr to light or brighten again; rekindle
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of relume1

1595–1605; re- + (il)lume; compare French rallumer, Late Latin °ù±ð±ôÅ«³¾¾±²ÔÄå°ù±ð. See relumine
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of relume1

C17: from Late Latin °ù±ð±ôÅ«³¾¾±²ÔÄå°ù±ð , from Latin re- + ¾±±ô±ôÅ«³¾¾±²ÔÄå°ù±ð to illumine
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Enkindling dawns of memory, Each sun had radiance to relume A sealed, disused, and darkened room Within the soul's immensity.

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But can the lords of this world, who think so little of the lives of their inferiors in wealth, with all their boasted power, relume the light of the eye once dimmed by the shades of death?

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Dead embers of departed fires lie by thee, thou pale girl; with dead embers thou seekest to relume the flame of all extinguished love!

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Chrysler, which insists that it cannot afford higher wages, wants its Canadian employees to return to work and then relume negotiations in January, as U.S. employees have agreed to do.

After hours of darkness, New Yorkers began to wonder of their city, as Othello did of doomed Desdemona, . . . where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume?

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