Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - illuminate
Illuminate
illuminate
v.tr. 1 light up; make bright. 2 decorate (buildings etc.) with lights as a sign of festivity. 3 decorate (an initial letter, a manuscript, etc.) with gold, silver, or brilliant colours. 4 help to explain (a subject etc.). 5 enlighten spiritually or intellectually. 6 shed lustre on. Derivatives illuminating adj. illuminatingly adv. illumination n. illuminative adj. illuminator n. Etymology: L illuminare (as IN-(2), lumen luminis light)
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I. adjective Date: 15th century brightened with light, intellectually or spiritually enlightened, II. transitive verb (-nated; -nating) see: luminary Date: 15th century 1. to enlighten spiritually or intellectually, b. to supply or brighten with light, to make luminous or shining, to set alight, to subject to radiation, 2. to make clear ; elucidate, to bring to the fore ; highlight , to make illustrious or resplendent, to decorate (as a manuscript) with gold or silver or brilliant colors or with often elaborate designs or miniature pictures, illuminatingly adverb illuminator noun III. noun Date: 1600 one having or claiming unusual enlightenment ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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