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To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

One of the Illuminati.

One who, or that which, illuminates.

To illumine again or anew; to reillume.

To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. That beacons the darkness of heaven. Campbell.

he moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."

To illumine; to enlighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.

of experience. P. Henry To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge. When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. Holland. Those that undertoo…

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.

See Illumine.

That which illumines or makes clear to the mind; mental or spiritual illumination; enlightenment; knowledge; information. He shall never know That I had any light of this from thee. Shak.

To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.

Illumined by the moon. "The moonlit sea." Moore. "Moonlit dells." Lowell.

To shine over or upon; to illumine. Shak.

To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. "Thou must reillume its spark." J. R. Drake.

To enlighten again; to reillumine.