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- English Word Illude Definition To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
- English Word Illuded Definition of Illude
- English Word Illuding Definition of Illude
- English Word Illume Definition To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.
- English Word Illumed Definition of Illume
- English Word Illuminable Definition Capable of being illuminated.
- English Word Illuminant Definition That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants.
- English Word Illuminary Definition Illuminative.
- English Word Illuminate Definition To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
- English Word Illuminate Definition To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
- 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.