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illuminer|ɪˈl(j)uːmɪnə(r)|
Also 5 illumynour, -are, 7, 9 -or.
[f. illumine v. + -er1. In 15th c. found also with AF. ending -our (:—OF. -eor, -eur: -ātōrem), whence also later -or. For 16th c. Sc. form in -are, see -ar3.]
1. An illuminator; an enlightener. lit. and fig.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. ii. 65 Lorde god, inspirour & illumynour of prophetes. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 1/2 (R. Suppl.) We haue grete nede of a doctour..of a condyter, of a lighter or illuminer. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 180 b, An illumyner or a gyuer of lyght. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. i. §48 A great Refiner, and Illuminer of our English tongue.
†2. A source of light; a luminary. Obs.
c1500Lancelot 3 The brycht and fresch illumynare Uprisith arly in his fyre chare. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xiii. 75 The Pyramid of Illumination..enlarges her basis so much the more as the Illuminor is remote.
†3. An illuminator of manuscripts, etc. Obs.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Cambridgesh. i. (1662) 161 The best Illuminer or Limner of our age. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. I. 605 The whole body of monks, scribes, illuminors, and readers. |