ENLIGHT

Etymology

Verb

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

(archaic, transitive) To illuminate.

Anagrams

• lething, lighten

Source: Wiktionary


En*light", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + light. Cf. Enlighten.]

Definition: To illumine; to enlighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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