![]() To be out like a light "suddenly or completely unconscious" is from 1934. The rock concert light-show is from 1966. To see the light "come into the world" is from 1680s later as "come to full realization" (1812). To figuratively stand in (someone's) light is from late 14c. Phrases such as according to (one's) lights "to the best of one's natural or acquired capacities" preserve an older sense attested from 1520s. A source of joy or delight has been the light of (someone's) eyes since Old English: Ðu eart dohtor min, minra eagna leoht. Meaning "person eminent or conspicuous" is from 1590s. Quaker use is by 1650s New Light / Old Light in church doctrine also is from 1650s. Meaning "a consideration which puts something in a certain view" (as in in light of) is from 1680s. Meaning "something used for igniting" is from 1680s. The figurative spiritual sense was in Old English the sense of "mental illumination" is first recorded mid-15c. Times, Sunday Times (2007) For that, you need a repertoire of chic occasional tables. Times, Sunday Times (2006) There are armchairs, occasional tables, mirrors, chandeliers, writing desks, standard lamps. The -gh- was an Anglo-French scribal attempt to render the Germanic hard -h- sound, which has since disappeared from this word. The occasional tables are actually rather frequent. ![]() They turn on automatically when activated. Definition (2): Dusk-sensing headlights are headlights that turn on when it begins to get dusk/dark. "brightness, radiant energy, that which makes things visible," Old English leht (Anglian), leoht (West Saxon), "light, daylight spiritual illumination," from Proto-Germanic *leukhtam (source also of Old Saxon lioht, Old Frisian liacht, Middle Dutch lucht, Dutch licht, Old High German lioht, German Licht, Gothic liuhaþ "light"), from PIE root *leuk- "light, brightness." Definition (1): Dusk-sensing headlights is a feature that, when activated, automatically turns on the headlights and taillights when the ambient light dims at sunset. "She was in the twilight zone between the races where each might claim her. In the 1909 novel "In the Twilight Zone," the reference is to mulatto heritage. Twilight zone is from 1901 in a literal sense, a part of the sky lit by twilight from 1909 in extended senses in references to topics or cases where authority or behavior is unclear. Compare also Sanskrit samdhya "twilight," literally "a holding together, junction," Middle High German zwischerliecht, literally "tweenlight." Originally and most commonly in English with reference to evening twilight but occasionally used of morning twilight (a sense first attested mid-15c.). Exact connotation of twi- in this word is unclear, but it appears to refer to "half" light, rather than the fact that twilight occurs twice a day. ( twilighting), a compound of twi- + light (n.) Cognate with Middle Flemish twilicht, Dutch tweelicht (16c.), Middle High German twelicht, German zwielicht. "light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon at morning and evening," late 14c.
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