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illuminated, ppl. a.|ɪˈl(j)uːmɪneɪtɪd|
[f. illuminate v. + -ed1: cf. illuminate a.]
1. a. Lighted up; made light, luminous, or resplendent.
1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 91 Such like illuminated ayr as this we breathe in. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. I. i. vi. 17 The Bononian Stone..if exposed a while to the illuminated Air, will imbibe the Light. 1831Brewster Optics Introd. 2 Light is emitted from every point of a luminous or of an illuminated body. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 85 Illuminated dials for turret clocks are as a rule made of opalescent glass.
b. Made, or being, the target of (non-visible) radiation of some kind.
1942J. C. Slater Microwave Transmission vi. 275 The illuminated region can be considerably greater than the distance between poles. 1950J. D. Kraus Antennas xii. 345 An antenna with a uniformly illuminated circular aperture 10 wavelengths in diameter has a gain of 600 or nearly 28 db with respect to a ½-wavelength dipole antenna. 1966Tolstoy & Clay Ocean Acoustics vi. 198 The dimensions of the illuminated area are much larger than the acoustic wavelength.
2. Having or claiming spiritual enlightenment.
1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Ivstine Ll iv b, Anabaptists..trusting vnto illuminated reuelations. 1768H. Walpole Hist. Doubts Pref. 3 All very ancient history except that of the illuminated Jews is a perfect fable. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. i, Every revelation..has many meanings, which it is given to the illuminated only to unfold.
3. Enlightened intellectually.
1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 123 They believe them to have been endowed with very illuminated intellectuals. 1791Paine Rights of Man (ed. 4) 10 That august, illuminated and illuminating body of men. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. viii, ‘But is it not the deepest Law of Nature that she be constant?’ cries an illuminated class.
4. Of or belonging to various societies or orders called illuminati. Also absol. = illuminati.
1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 271 One of the illuminated fathers of the Familists. 1686tr. Bouhours' St. Ignatius ii. 77 In Spain certain Visionaries, who were call'd the Illuminated, or Men of new Lights. 1802Edin. Rev. I. 17 The object of the Illuminated Orders was probably..unattainable.
5. a. Of letters, writing, manuscripts, etc.: Adorned with brilliant colours, metallic pigments, etc. (see illuminate v. 8). Also as n. rare.
1712Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 372 Not only the Black, but all the Red (commonly call'd Illuminated Letters) are printed. 1765Blackstone Comm. (1774) I. 255 A copy of this act, elegantly engrossed and illuminated. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Truth Wks. (Bohn) II. 51 Illuminated missals. 1923E. Pound Let. 12 May (1971) 187 Price 25 dollars per copy, and 50 and 100 bones for Vellum and illuminateds.
b. College slang. Of a text: Having an interlinear translation.
1851B. H. Hall College Words 261 Illuminated books are preferred..to ponies or hobbies, as the text and translation in them are bought nearer to one another. |