illuminate

Speech parts

1. illuminate - Noun

2. illuminate - Adjective

3. illuminate - Verb

Meaning

To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.

To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.

To light up in token or rejoicing.

Enlightened.

One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.

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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. Thomas Aquinas

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. Peter Abelard

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. Rachel Carson

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing. Nicholas Sparks

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Ambrose Bierce

Not so much that it burns the saint, nor so little that it doesn't illuminate him. Mexican Proverb

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