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- English Word Illuminate Definition To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
- English Word Illuminate Definition To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.
- English Word Illuminate Definition To light up in token or rejoicing.
- English Word Illuminate Definition Enlightened.
- English Word Illuminate Definition One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.
- English Word Illuminated Definition of Illuminate
- English Word Illuminati Definition Literally, those who are enlightened
- English Word Illuminati Definition Persons in the early church who had received baptism; in which ceremony a lighted taper was given them, as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament.
- English Word Illuminati Definition Members of a sect which sprung up in Spain about the year 1575. Their principal doctrine was, that, by means of prayer, they had attained to so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances, sacraments, good works, etc.; -- called also Alumbrados, Perfectibilists, etc.
- English Word Illuminati Definition Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years.
- English Word Illuminati Definition An obscure sect of French Familists;
- English Word Illuminati Definition The Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists;
- English Word Illuminati Definition The Rosicrucians.
- English Word Illuminati Definition Any persons who profess special spiritual or intellectual enlightenment.
- English Word Illuminating Definition of Illuminate
- English Word Illuminating Definition Giving or producing light; used for illumination.
- English Word Illumination Definition The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
- English Word Illumination Definition Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
- English Word Illumination Definition Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
- English Word Illumination Definition That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.
- English Word Illumination Definition That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.
- English Word Illumination Definition The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.
- English Word Illuminatism Definition Illuminism.
- English Word Illuminative Definition Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative.
- English Word Illuminator Definition One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
- English Word Illuminator Definition A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant.
- English Word Illumine Definition To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
- English Word Illuminee Definition One of the Illuminati.
- English Word Illuminer Definition One who, or that which, illuminates.
- English Word Illuming Definition of Illume