Search the Dictionary

lear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.

To enlighten again; to reillumine.

To illuminate. [Obs.] Cowley.

a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will. South.

A flash of intellectual brilliancy. He might have illuminated his times with the incessant cor of his genius. I. Taylor.

of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The…

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4.

One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

To light up as if by fire; to illuminate. [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. Shak.

hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. -- Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. -- Full score (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are gi…

Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.

Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.

To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine. Shak. The mountain's brow, Illumed with fluid gold. Thomson.

Capable of being illuminated.

That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants. Boyle.

The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative. "Illuminative reading." Carlyle.

occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.