To light up or illuminate; to shed light upon something previously dark.
From en- + light (Old English 'leoht'). An archaic poetic form meaning to brighten or illuminate, later superseded by 'enlighten.'
This rare old word is the ancestor of 'enlighten'—both share that beautiful idea of light chasing away darkness, whether literal darkness or the darkness of ignorance!
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