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/ɪlˈumənˌeɪtəd/ Listen

adjective

illuminated adj.

Rendered luminous by rays of light striking and reflecting; used especially of illumination by artificial light.

Synonyms: lighted.

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; as, an illuminated manuscript.

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Etymology of 'Illuminated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Illuminated" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the town in the obscurity of approaching night; a thick tulle fog had blown down on the north wind. The little foot-hill city was all drowned in it; tree-tops, roofs, the gable ends of houses, the illuminated dial of the town clock on the city hall, sticking up from the blur like things seen in a dream. As we headed for a garage with the name Capehart on it, we heard, soft, muffled, seven strokes ...

— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan

... life native to the body, and mankind has found it possible to exist only in the narrow belt immediately on the dark side of the terminator, the line of demarcation between night and day. Here there are the dense vapors, illuminated perpetually by refracted light from the daylight side and by the internal fires of the planet itself, fires which erupt at regular intervals through many fissures and craters. And it is only under greatest hardship that ...

— Vulcan's Workshop • Harl Vincent

... your mother's," answered King Pluto. "It is a palace, all made of gold, with crystal windows; and because there is little or no sunshine thereabouts, the apartments are illuminated with diamond lamps. You never saw anything half so magnificent as my throne. If you like, you may sit down on it, and be my little queen, and I will sit on ...

— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various

... Christian, in whom this unreflecting species of life and conduct has given way, somewhat, to a thoughtful and vigilant life, knows and acknowledges that perfection is not yet come. As he casts his eye over even his regenerate and illuminated life, and sees what a small amount of sin has been distinctly detected, keenly felt, and heartily confessed, in comparison with that large amount of sin which he knows he must have committed, during this long period of ...

— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd

... grew heavier. The tents were illuminated almost incessantly by flashes of lightning. It was quite evident, however, that the camp was not in the heart of the electrical disturbance, although a veritable deluge of water ...

— The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas • Janet Aldridge

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