Illuminate
[ɪ'l(j)uːmɪneɪt] or [ɪ'lumɪnet]
Definition
(verb.) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts).
Checker: Neil--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
(v. t.) To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To light up in token or rejoicing.
(a.) Enlightened.
(n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Enlighten, illumine, illume, supply with light.[2]. Adorn with lights (as a building), light up.[3]. Adorn with colored letters.
Edited by Elena
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN: enlighten, emblazon, irradiate
ANT:Darken, obscure, bedim
Checker: Tom
Definition
v.t. to light up: to enlighten: to illustrate: to adorn with ornamental lettering or illustrations.—adj. enlightened.—adj. Illū′minable that may be illuminated.—adj. and n. Illū′minant.—n.pl. Illuminā′tī the enlightened a name given to various sects and especially to a society of German Freethinkers at the end of the 18th century.—n. Illuminā′tion act of giving light: that which gives light: splendour: brightness: a display of lights: adorning of books with coloured lettering or illustrations: (B.) enlightening influence inspiration.—adj. Illū′minative tending to give light: illustrative or explanatory.—n. Illū′minator one who illuminates esp. one who is employed in adorning books with coloured letters and illustrations.—vs.t. Illū′mine Illū′me to make luminous or bright: to enlighten: to adorn.—ns. Illū′miner an illuminator; Illū′minism.—adj. Illum′inous bright.
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Examples
- This is a difficulty which is common to conservative and radical, and if I have used three living men to illustrate the problem it is only because they seem to illuminate it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr Meagles was at hand the whole time, always ready to illuminate any dim place with the bright little safety-lamp belonging to the scales and scoop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Murdoch, Winser, Clegg and others continued to illuminate the public works and buildings of England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At any time some new deposit may reveal fossils that will illuminate this question. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The incandescent bulbs which illuminate our buildings consist of a fine, hairlike thread inclosed in a glass bulb from which the air has been removed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No fewer than four silver candelabras, holding great waxen torches, served to illuminate this apartment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The windows of the room had before been darkened; and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But the difference is but one of emphasis; the meaning that is shaded in one set of words is illuminated in the other. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Venn then came nearer till he could see the illuminated side of her form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The Oriental noblemen had removed their own illuminated manuscript, and had removed nothing else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- No insight into the evident fact that power upsets all mechanical foresight and gravitates toward the natural leaders seems to have illuminated those historic deliberations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And one tiny figure moved over the vaguely-illuminated space. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lights now appeared to guide us; and a long suite of splendid rooms illuminated, made us still more wonder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The door of the house from which these sounds proceeded was open, the upper rooms were illuminated as for a feast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There are two distinct states of carbonization in illuminating gas. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A dangerous but very extensively used illuminating liquid before coal oil was discovered was camphene, distilled from turpentine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Winsor takes British patent for Illuminating Gas, lights Lyceum Theatre, and organizes First Gas Company. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the meantime, in 1801, Le Bon, a Frenchman at Paris, had succeeded in making illuminating gas from wood, lit his house therewith, and proposed to light the whole city of Paris. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For while it is illuminating to see how environment moulds men, it is absolutely essential that men regard themselves as moulders of their environment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am simply trying to point out an illuminating fact whose essential truth can hardly be disputed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Water gas has neither the illuminating nor the heating qualities of coal gas, and it is also much more poisonous. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- More than any other generalization it illuminates the currents of our national life and explains the altering tasks of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An incident in the international peace propaganda illuminates this point. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At the lower levels we meet the same stratum of phosphorescent rock that illuminates Omean. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Invention is that divine spark which drove, and still drives him to the production of means to meet his wants, while it illuminates his way. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- That is perhaps true, and it suggests a comparison which illuminates both men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Wendy