Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that illuminates, especially a device for producing, concentrating, or reflecting light.
- noun One who illuminates manuscripts or other objects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which illuminates or gives light; a natural or artificial source of light, literally or figuratively: as, the sun is the primary illuminator.
- noun One who decorates manuscripts, books, etc., with ornamental pictures, designs, letters, etc., in the style called illumination.
- noun A lens or mirror in a microscope or other optical instrument for concentrating the light.
- noun A glass tile or floor-light.
- noun An apparatus for directing a beam of light upon some object, as in lighting parts of the body in surgical or medical examinations.
- noun A device for carrying a small electric light into the mouth in examining the teeth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See
illuminate , v. t., 3. - noun A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant.
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- noun
Agent noun ofilluminate ; one who illuminates; anexplainer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For example, to get me a UV lamp for viewing thin layer chromatography plates, an old microscope illuminator from the teaching lab had to be junked.
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In the twelfth century when, as far as we know, the word illuminator was first applied to one who practised the art of book decoration, it meant one who "lighted up" the page of the book with bright colours and burnished gold.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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If a scribe excelled in painting miniatures or initial letters he usually confined himself to such work, and was called illuminator, while one who worked chiefly on legal documents was a notarius.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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But better even than the gold and lapis-lazuli to the illuminator was the sympathy to the isolated enthusiast.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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He gets an opportunity to leave that life behind however when an "illuminator" (a sorcerer perhaps?) shows up with an ancient book imbued with great power.
‘The Secret Of Kells’ Is A Best Animated Feature Oscar Nominee… But What Is It?! » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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Later I saw “Personna” and realized that I was in the hands of kind of illuminator of life, death and art, who operated as if with strokes of lightening.
Ingmar Bergman, Famed Director, Dies at 89 - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The ideographs with which the name of Sin is written show him to have been regarded as the god of wisdom, but while wisdom and light may be connected, it is Nannar's character as the "illuminator" that becomes the chief trait of the god.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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a miniaturist; and, as we have said, the word "illuminator" was not then known.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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I bot a Redfield illuminator 3x9 top of the line over 30 years ago for my 300Win magnum.
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I bot a Redfield illuminator 3x9 top of the line over 30 years ago for my 300Win magnum.
dailyword commented on the word illuminator
Brother Adelmo was this in "The Name Of The Rose."
June 15, 2012