Word Meanings - ILLUMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration. Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker. (more info) 1. The act of illuminating, or supplying

Additional info about word: ILLUMINATION

The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration. Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker. (more info) 1. The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated. 2. Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights. 3. Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3. 4. That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript. 5. That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge. The illumination which a bright genius giveth to his work. Felton.

Related words: (words related to ILLUMINATION)

• FRAMABLE
  Capable of being framed.
• ILLUMINATE
  in + luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen light. See Luminous, and cf. 1. To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten. 2. To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• INSPIRING
  Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.
• INSPIRATOR
  A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• INSPIRED
  1. Breathed in; inhaled. 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. 3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine
• INSPIRATIONIST
  One who holds to inspiration.
• PROPHETICALITY
  Propheticalness.
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• COMMUNICATION
  A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of
• SPECIALLY
  1. In a special manner; partcularly; especially. Chaucer. 2. For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned.
• FRAMBAESIA
  The yaws. See Yaws.
• FRAMEWORK
  1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
• ILLUMINATI
  Literally, those who are enlightened; -- variously applied as follows: -
• INSPIRATION
  A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth;
• INSPIRABLE
  Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration. Harvey.
• SPECIALISM
  Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.
• SPECIALIZATION
  The setting spart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. Darwin. (more info) 1. The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.
• FRAMER
  One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• PROPHETIC; PROPHETICAL
  Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.
• WOLFRAMATE
  A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.
• ESPECIALNESS
  The state of being especial.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
• ACKNOWLEDGER
  One who acknowledges.
• PREMEDITATION
  The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.
• INFRAMEDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.