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Luminary   /lˈumənˌɛri/   Listen
noun
Luminary  n.  (pl. luminaries)  
1.
Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies. " Radiant luminary." "Where the great luminary... Dispenses light from far."
2.
One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.





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"Luminary" Quotes from Famous Books



... night, a star finds room to mirror itself in thy little stagnant world, shining through the fat weeds and slime that almost shut out the heavens, pray be careful not to pay too much heed to the high-born luminary. Look to your wriggling; that is your proper business. An animalcule that does not wriggle must be morbid or peculiar. All will tender, in different forms of varying elegance, the safe and simple admonition: 'Wriggle and be ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... moon-ward and noting with satisfaction that the luminary was behind a thick bank of clouds. "Turn back and row to the warehouse steps. I want to look at that fellow." So saying, he quickly threw off his uniform coat with its gleaming shoulder-straps and collar device, stowed his forage-cap under the ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King
... third day after our departure from Seville, we found ourselves at the Cuesta del Espinal, or hill of the thorn tree, at about two leagues from Cordova;—we could just descry the walls of the city, upon which the last beams of the descending luminary were resting. As the neighbourhood in which we were was, according to the account of my guide, generally infested with robbers, we used our best endeavours to reach the town before the night should have entirely closed in. ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... know it," answered Lobelalatutu. "It is that much beyond the village on its far side." And, pointing to the sun, he described with his finger a small arc representing the apparent travel of that luminary across the sky during a quarter of ...
— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... cradle, when the day that is about to be born sends forward no heralding Aurora; but as soon as it begins to rise, the quivering brightness displays its torch. It beholds Phoebus in his joy; it is bathed in the brightness of that luminary so that it might be thought to be itself the native land of the sun, the claims of Rhodes to that honour being outdone.... It enjoys a translucent air, but withal so temperate, that its winters ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese


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