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Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." Macaulay. " A luminous statement." Brougham. Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.…

Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant. Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames. Prior.

Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment. G. H. Lewes.

One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom. Coleridge.

egularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon.

To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate. [R.]

To enlighten again; to reillumine.

The act or process of enlightening again.

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns. Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

A subordinate part. It should be lightened with underparts of mirth. Dryden.

To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Jer. iv. 22.