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ter or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl.

In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.

The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.

ral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there. Coleridge.

n envious man are those little blemishes and imperfections that discover themselves in an illustrious character. Spectator.

Illustrious; glorious. In the brightest annals of a female reign. Cotton.

To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to. The present queen would brighten her character, if she would exert her authority to instill virtues into her people. Swift.

A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser. Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden.

The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person. After the demise of the Queen [of George II.], in 1737, they [drawing-rooms] were held but twice a week. P. Cunningham.

To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor. Your worth will dignity our feast. B. Jonson.

from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds.

pously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

is . . . the evidence of things not seen. Heb. xi. 1. O glorious trial of exceeding love Illustrious evidence, example high. Milton.

Illustrious; honorable; noble. [Obs.] Milton.

s, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! Milton.

Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception. They are the highest models of expression, the unapproa…

Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.