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uniˈlluminated, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not spiritually or mentally enlightened.
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love B iij b, H. N. sayth of all preachers without his Familie, that they are vnilluminated. 1639W. Sclater Worthy Commun. 23 Thus surely may your dull Capernaites, and unilluminated men imagine. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. vi. xii. 248 What the ungodded or unilluminated men..bring forth. 1798Brit. Critic XI. 47 The hazard of being reputed the disciples of a very unilluminated school. 1858H. Bushnell Serm. New Life 100 The unilluminated and superficial speculations of our times. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 454 To the eyes of the unilluminated heart the region in which Faith lives and moves is a dark cavern.
2. Not illuminated or lighted up. Also fig.
1824De Quincey Analects fr. Richter Wks. 1860 XIV. 137, I saw the Form which still lightened as before, but left all around it unilluminated. 1874tr. Lommel's Light 15 The back unilluminated surface of the body. |