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📜 To decorate with gold 💡 To light up 🧠 To make clear
to lumine

to lumine

9.9
To decorate a book page with gold or bright colors
  • verb
  • /ˈluːmɪn/
  • Archaic
translation icon : iluminar
  • In medieval times, monks often lumined religious texts to make them more beautiful and valuable.

Examples

  • The artist lumined the ancient manuscript with intricate gold patterns and vivid blue ink.

  • During the workshop, children lumined their own pages using bright paints and metallic foil.

  • The artist decided to lumine the pages of the ancient book.

  • She lumined the manuscript beautifully.

  • The monk carefully lumined the religious text with gold leaf and vibrant colors to enhance its beauty.

  • In the art class, students lumined their journals with colorful markers and shimmering ink to create unique designs.

  • Artists in the Middle Ages often lumined manuscripts to attract attention and display their skill.

Synonyms

to illuminate
vsto lumine
5 8.3

To decorate old hand-written books with gold and bright pictures

has identical meaning but uses an alternative form
to begild
vsto lumine
  • Archaic
9.9

To put thin gold or gold leaf on something

is specific to manuscripts and also includes silver and bright colors
to engild
vsto lumine
  • Archaic
9.9

To cover something with gold or thin gold leaf

focuses on manuscript decoration using gold silver and bright colors

How Ornate

to gild
5 7.0
to lumine
  • Archaic
9.9
to embellish
10 6.3
to decorate
226 1.9

Surface Forms

lumine infinitive
lumined past
lumined past participle
lumining present participle
lumines third person singular

Etymology

Lumine comes from the Latin root lumen, meaning 'light', and shares the same root as luminous and illuminate; in medieval times scribes used gold and bright paint to make pages shine, so to lumine a manuscript is to decorate it so it 'glows' with light.