enlight

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ light.

Verb

enlight (third-person singular simple present enlights, present participle enlighting, simple past and past participle enlighted or enlit)

1. (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
   • 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →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

• enlighten

References

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

Anagrams

• lething, lighten