Definition of Illuminate

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Illuminate

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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Illuminate Quotations

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin

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

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

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
Walter Jon Williams

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde

Illuminate Translations

illuminate in Danish is oplyse
illuminate in Dutch is illumineren, verlichten
illuminate in French is enluminons, enluminer, enluminez, illuminer
illuminate in German is anstrahlen, erleuchten, beleuchten
illuminate in Italian is illuminare
illuminate in Latin is accendo
illuminate in Portuguese is ilumine
illuminate in Spanish is lucir, iluminar

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