Definition of "illumed" [illumed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of illume. (verb)

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• "I still admired how the yellow cabs nosed like dolphin up Sixth Avenue, but there was no electric charge in trying to hail one at rush hour -- then as now, when the 'off duty' light is inexplicably illumed -- or feeling the concrete begin to anchor my feet, Daphne-like; I was becoming a stony tree, no roots."
• "The cabinetry is all chocolaty wood, the countertops a hard Formica blaze of orange, a room that seems dark even when it is blazingly illumed."
• "There, also, he caught a glimpse of himself as an obscure, diaphanous man reflected on the glass; his transposed image was cast amongst the wide residential street-the adjacent and similarly designed homes, the xeriscaped lawns-backlit by a table lamp but also illumed in that frozen vapor which brightened the night, that curious downpouring which smothered the gravel-laden property and changed his Suburban Half-Ton LS from sandalwood metallic to an almost solid white."