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Illuminating

adjective

1.

Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance. Synonyms: enlightening, informative. "An illuminating lecture" Antonym: unenlightening.

Illuminate

verb

(past & past part. illuminated; pres. part. illuminating)

1.

Make lighter or brighter. Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up.

2.

Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out. "Clear up the question of who is at fault"

3.

Add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts).

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"Illuminating" Quotes from Famous Books

... it was actually the light from the television set that was illuminating the interior of the shell, lighting it with a strange radiance that seemed to extend outward from the shell in a steadily widening cone. His hand touched this cone, and it ...

— Made in Tanganyika • Carl Richard Jacobi

... in 1906-1907, a very exhaustive and illuminating investigation was made under the general supervision of Dr. Wallin, one of the most eminent authorities on the relationship of the physical and the mental in the work of our schools. Dr. Wallin called to his assistance many experts, both medical and physical, and his report was a ...

— On the Firing Line in Education • Adoniram Judson Ladd

... himself thinking more of his handsome visitor and her easy self-mastery, compared with his own awkwardness and embarrassment, than of her errand and the troublesome task she had devolved on him of illuminating his son's mind about the possible self-sacrificial motives of her daughter. His thoughts would wander back to their Romeo and Juliet period, and make comparisons between this now of worldly-wise maturities and the days when he would have been the glove upon that hand, that he might ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... tedious and unnecessary to state all the phases of Mr. Cave's discovery from this point. Suffice that the effect was this: the crystal, being peered into at an angle of about 137 degrees from the direction of the illuminating ray, gave a clear and consistent picture of a wide and peculiar countryside. It was not dream-like at all: it produced a definite impression of reality, and the better the light the more real and solid it seemed. It was a moving picture: that is to say, certain objects moved in it, but slowly ...

— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells

... of the Vilna-Grodno edition of the Talmud is interesting as well as illuminating. It depicts the relation of the Jews among themselves and to the Government. Begun in 1835, at Ozar, near Grodno, an imperial ukase directed the removal of the work to Vilna, the metropolis of Russo-Poland. ...

— The Haskalah Movement in Russia • Jacob S. Raisin

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