enlight
English
Etymology
en- + light
Verb
enlight (third-person singular simple present enlights, present participle enlighting, simple past and past participle enlighted or enlit)
- (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
- Alexander Pope
- Which from the first has shone on ages past,
Enlights the present, and shall warm the last.
- Which from the first has shone on ages past,
- Alexander Pope
Related terms
- enlighten
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enlight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- lething, lighten