Illuminate



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.启发; 照亮
• ［类］ enfranchise : vote / illuminate : see ( 给予?偃梢酝镀?/ 照亮可以看见) illuminate : darkness / educate : ignorance ( 照亮可以消除黑暗 / 教育可以消除无知)

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Date: 15th century
• 1. archaic brightened with light
• 2. archaic intellectually or spiritually enlightened

II. transitive verb (-nated; -nating)

• Etymology: Middle English, from Latin illuminatus, past participle of illuminare, from in- + luminare to light up, from lumin-, lumen light — more at luminary
• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. to enlighten spiritually or intellectually
  • b.
    • (1) to supply or brighten with light
    • (2) to make luminous or shining
  • c. archaic to set alight
  • d. to subject to radiation
• 2.
  • a. to make clear ; elucidate
  • b. to bring to the fore ; highlight <a crisis can illuminate how interdependent we all are>
• 3. to make illustrious or resplendent
• 4. 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
• archaic one having or claiming unusual enlightenment

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