illightenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

illighten (third-person singular simple present illightens, present participle illightening, simple past and past participle illightened)

1. (obsolete, chiefly poetic) To enlighten.
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the Creation, and Preſervation of the World.”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §. VII Of the light created, as the materiall ſubſtance of the Sunne:and of the nature of it, and difficulty of knowledge of it:and of the excellency and uſe of it:and of motion, and heat annexed unto it., page 11:

     So then the Maſſe and Chaos being firſt created, void, darke, and imformed, was by the operatiue Spirit of God pierced and quickned, and the Waters hauing now receiued Spirit and motion, reſolued their thinner parts into aire, which God illightned .the Earth alſo by being contignat, and mixt with waters (participating the fame diuine vertue) brought forth the budde of the hearbe that ſeedeth ſeede, &c and for a meane and organ, by which this operatiue vertue might be continued, God appointed the light to be vnited, and gaue it alſo motion and heat, which heat cauſed a con tinuance of thoſe ſeuerall ſpecies, which the Earth (being made fruitfull by the Spirit) produced, and with motion begat the time, and times ſucceeding

参照

“illighten”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• light line