| 释义 |
enlightener|ɛnˈlaɪt(ə)nə(r)|
Also 8 inlightener.
[f. enlighten v. + -er1]
One who, or that which, enlightens; one who imparts intellectual light, informs or instructs. Rare in physical sense.
1582Bentley Mon. Matrones iii. 225 O mine Inlightener, it is thou that hast taught and instructed me. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 271 O sent from Heav'n, Enlightner of my darkness. 1750Warburton Doctr. Grace, Is it possible, then, to suppose them [the Apostles] to be deserted by their divine Inlightener? 1840Mill Diss. & Disc., Civiliz. (1859) I. 187 Literature..has almost entirely abandoned its mission as an enlightener and improver of them [the current sentiments]. 1851G. S. Faber Many Mansions (1862) The great Enlightener of Life and Immortality.
†b. In pl.: The party of enlightenment, the ‘illuminatists’. Obs. (? nonce-use.)
1800Month. Mag. VIII. 597 The first practical victory won by the Enlighteners over their antagonists, was the suppression of the Order of Jesuits by Clement XIV. |