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▪ I. † ˈluminate, a. Obs.
[ad. L. lūmināt-us, pa. pple. of lūmināre (see next).]
Lighted.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 925 Thair luminat lampis of gret valour.
▪ II. luminate, v. Obs. or arch.|ˈl(j)uːmɪneɪt|
[f. L. lūmināt-, ppl. stem of lūmināre, f. lūmin-, lūmen light.]
trans. To light up, illuminate.
1623Cockeram, Luminate, to giue light. 1693W. de Britaine Hum. Prud. v. (ed. 6) 36 Whether the Stars be but Earth luminated, as Thales maintained, or [etc.]. 1799Sir H. Davy in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. (1799) 87 The atmosphere [above 45 miles high] is amazingly rare, being composed of phosoxygen highly luminated. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. i. 634 Would proper principles in Nature lie, To furnish earth and luminate the sky?
Hence ˈluminated, ˈluminating ppl. adjs.
1652Benlowes Theoph. vii. xix. 97 The Stars..That stud the luminated sphear. 1746Watson in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 87 The luminating Power which is gained by Calcination. 1882G. Macdonald Castle Warlock i. xx. 320 He had been inwardly beholding a large breadth of gently luminated spiritual sky. |