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Dictionary Entry
To start (a fire).
In a Sentence
“We lit the fire to get some heat.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. litlit dimlylit brightlylit facelit eyes
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Poetry examples for “lit”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Full of the stately repose and the lordly delight of the dead,
Where the fortunate islands are lit with the light of ineffable faces,
And the sound of a sea without wind is about them, and sunset is
Read full poem →fruitful of births divine,
Days lit with the flame of the lamps of the flowers, and nights
that are drunken with dew for wine,
Read full poem →To a simple meal was there, with eyes
Lit by the joy of his great emprise,
He reverently bade her come,
Read full poem →Of space unroll, and Heaven overlays
The leafy, sun-lit earth of Fantasy.
Beyond the ilex shadow glares the sun,
Read full poem →Beneath my feet the snow is lit
And gemmed with colours, red, and blue,
Read full poem →And on another scrap, of next day’s date, was written:—
It was by accident purely I lit on the place; I was returning,
Quietly, travelling homeward by one of these wretched coaches;
Read full poem →a legacy had been left him by a relation, he determined to
come to London, where, it appears, he dissipated the lit-
tle fortune he possessed. He was then engaged to per-
Read full poem →Thankful for all withheld and all things given;
So lit by love that Christ shines manifest
Transfiguring their aspects to His own.