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illuminator|ɪˈl(j)uːmɪneɪtə(r)|
[ad. L. illūminātor, agent-n. f. illūmināre to illuminate. Cf. F. illuminateur (17th c.).]
1. He who or that which illuminates or gives light; an illuminating agent.
1598Florio, Illuminatore, an illuminator or light-giuer. 1755Johnson, Illuminator, one who gives light. 1834New Monthly Mag. XLII. 260 Steam and gas..are the grand facilitators and illuminators of the intercourse of the most distant provinces. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 339 To produce a cheap illuminator from water.
b. techn. Applied to various instruments or devices.
(a) In a microscope or other optical instrument: A lens or mirror for concentrating the light. (b) In Surgery: An instrument for directing a strong light into any cavity of the body, or for illuminating an internal part. (c) A glazed opening in a floor, the deck of a ship, etc., to admit light to the part beneath.
1837Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 9, Fig. 4 is an illuminator for opaque objects.
2. One who illuminates or enlightens spiritually.
(The earliest sense in Eng.)
1485Caxton Chas. Gt. (1881) 15 The holy ghoost, confirmatour and Illumynatour of al good werkes. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 180 For heav'nly Truth dispos'd, Then their Illuminatour they adore. 1866J. G. Murphy Comm. Exod. xxviii. 30 The Lord above is the great Illuminator of the darkened soul.
3. One who enlightens intellectually, who imparts instruction or knowledge; applied contemptuously to the 18th century Illuminati.
1777Pennant Zool. IV. Advt. 4 That wonderful man (after Ray) the greatest illuminator of the study of Nature. 1790Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 11/1 The new illuminators, who despised all experience, and disdained all wisdom but their own. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 214 The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims, rather than the illuminators, of the multitude. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 215 note, It is one's self that apprehends, and..the illuminator desiderated by the Vedántins is superfluous.
†4. One who makes resplendent or illustrious.
1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. vii. (1634) 203 The poet Geffery Chaucer, who..is of some called the first illuminator of the English tongue.
5. One who embellishes letters with gold and colours, or manuscripts with ornamental writing so embellished: see illuminate v. 8.
[1655Fuller Hist. Camb. 24 Illuminatores, such as gave light and lustre to Manuscripts.] 1699Wanley in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 286 It seems to me to have been the name..of the Illuminator. 1708Hearne Collect. 8 Oct. (O.H.S.) II. 138 They are..of a..large size for y⊇ use of y⊇ Illuminators. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 69 The most valuable artists of that age were the illuminators of manuscripts. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 244 Fra Angelico, educated as an illuminator of manuscripts. |