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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Illuminated
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Illuminated
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Gregorius, Saint., the Illuminator
King James Dictionary
• Illuminated
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Illuminated
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Way, Illuminative
• Manuscripts, Illuminated
• Illuminator, Gregory the
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Illuminated
Webster Dictionary
• Illuminous
• Illuminizing
• Illuminized
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gregory the Illuminator
• Illuminated Mss
• Illuminating Engineering
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Illumination
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Illuminated
• Illumination, Art of
• Illuminism
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Illuminated Doctor
• Illumination, the
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Gregory the Illuminator
• Illuminated Manuscripts
• State or Way (Purgative, Illuminative, Unitive)
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Illuminated Manuscripts
Lexicons
• ܢܰܗܺܝܪܳܐ
• φωτεινός
• φωτίζω
• אוֹר
• נָגַהּ
• נְהִיר נַהִירוּ, , נְהוֹר

(1):

(v. i.) To light up in token or rejoicing.

(2):

(a.) Enlightened.

(3):

(v. t.) To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

(4):

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

(5):

(v. t.) 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.

(6):

(v. t.) 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.

(7):

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