Illumination
[ɪ,ljuːmɪ'neɪʃən] or [ɪ'lʊmə'neʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
(n.) Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
(n.) Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.
(v. t.) That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.
(v. t.) The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.
Checker: Olga
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you see strange and weird illuminations in your dreams, you will meet with disappointments and failures on every hand. Illuminated faces, indicate unsettled business, both private and official. To see the heavens illuminated, with the moon in all her weirdness, unnatural stars and a red sun, or a golden one, you may look for distress in its worst form. Death, family troubles, and national upheavals will occur. To see children in the lighted heavens, warns you to control your feelings, as irrevocable wrong may be done in a frenzy of feeling arising over seeming neglect by your dear ones. To see illuminated human figures or animals in the heavens, denotes failure and trouble; dark clouds overshadow fortune. To see them fall to the earth and men shoot them with guns, many troubles and obstacles will go to nought before your energy and determination to rise. To see illuminated snakes, or any other creeping thing, enemies will surround you, and use hellish means to overthrow you.
Editor: Megan
Examples
- It is a cheap source of illumination, but is found in relatively few localities and only in limited quantity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- One light-measuring scale depends upon the law that the intensity of illumination decreases with the square of the distance of the object from the light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The production of electrical illumination was now talked of more than ever. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Murdock, 1798, Uses Coal Gas for Illumination. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The simple candle of our ancestors was now replaced by the oil lamp, which gave a brighter, steadier, and more permanent illumination. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Welsbach made use of this fact to secure a burner in which the illumination depends upon the glowing of an incandescent, solid mantle, rather than upon the blazing of a burning gas. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Electric lighting, introduced in 1882, has become practically the standard for illumination, not only here, but for the entire civilized world. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They knew that they had found the light that was to be the main illumination for the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They were, indeed, usually rather dim, but they were capable of illumination. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In other words, a very slight drop in voltage means a disproportionately great loss in illumination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Like ethical insight, or spiritual illumination , the scientific idea comes to those who have striven for it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Suppose we wish to measure the strength of the electric light bulbs in our homes, in order to see whether we are getting the specified illumination. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The essential idea comes with a sense of illumination. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And when the work was done the reward was a new heaven and a new earth--in the art of illumination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But the course of civilization has been marked by an artificial lengthening of the day, and by a constant striving after more perfect means of illumination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They gossiped about the dresses, the music, the illuminations, the fine night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Warm from illuminations, and music, and thronging thousands, thoroughly lashed up by a new scourge, I defied spectra. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I know we never get up illuminations at Fieldhead, but I could not ask the meaning of sundry quite unaccountable pounds of candles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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