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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rendered luminous by rays of light striking and reflecting; -- used especially of illumination by artificial light.
- adjective Adorned with pictorial or graphical designs, 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.
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- adjective
irradiated bylight ,lit - adjective of a manuscript
decorated andillustrated . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
illuminate .
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- adjective provided with artificial light
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Examples
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The term 'illuminated' refers to handpainted manuscripts flecked with gold, which created a flickering effect when viewed by candlelight.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The term 'illuminated' refers to handpainted manuscripts flecked with gold, which created a flickering effect when viewed by candlelight.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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When I arrived with Mr and Mrs Drummond many of the company were there; the garden was what they called illuminated, that is, every gooseberry-bush had one variegated lamp suspended above the centre; and, as Mr Tomkins told me afterwards, the lamps were red and yellow, according to the fruit they bore.
Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820
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Both of these contain illuminated initials in which Saint John is dressed as a bishop (as he appeared in Kathrin's dream) celebrating Mass.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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This depiction, often sculptural as the Vesperbilder usually were but sometimes painted or illuminated, is based on the biblical passages describing the Last Supper.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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In ordinary daylight, a cup made of the glass appeared green, but then it glowed ruby when illuminated from the inside.
Another Step Towards an Invisibility Cloak | Impact Lab 2007
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Usually it refers to some small, original version of a much larger thing (Wisconsin's welfare program was said to be the homunculus version of the federal Welfare Reform Act of 1996; Iceland's ancient parliament, the Althing, is the homunculus version of Congress), but it can also mean someone who resembles the homunculi depicted in illuminated treatises.
Never Mind 2004
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Usually it refers to some small, original version of a much larger thing (Wisconsin's welfare program was said to be the homunculus version of the federal Welfare Reform Act of 1996; Iceland's ancient parliament, the Althing, is the homunculus version of Congress), but it can also mean someone who resembles the homunculi depicted in illuminated treatises.
Never Mind 2004
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Written in illuminated Latin, with informal marginalia in Greek, the Codex bore the signature of Udo himself.
Archive 1999-04-01 Ray Girvan 1999
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Written in illuminated Latin, with informal marginalia in Greek, the Codex bore the signature of Udo himself.
The Mandelbrot Monk Ray Girvan 1999
reesetee commented on the word illuminated
In printing, used to describe a manuscript or book that has been decorated with colors and with liquid gold or silver; often seen in incunabula.
Here's a detail from a 12th-century illuminated manuscript known as the Aberdeen Bestiary.
February 25, 2008