With spiritual reference: the brightness of heaven, the illumination of the soul by divine truth or love, etc.

figurative. Spiritual light or glory as emanating from God; spiritual illumination or enlightenment of the soul, etc.; a source of this. Obsolete.

The action of inspiring; the fact or condition of being inspired (in sense 4a or 5aof inspire, v.)… spec. (Theology, etc.) A special immediate…

plural. An instance of this; an inspiration; a revelation.

infusion.

The disclosure or communication of knowledge, instructions, etc., by divine or supernatural means.

In ancient Greece and Rome: the instrument, agency, or medium (usually a priest or a priestess) through which the gods were supposed to speak or…

The action or an act of disclosing information, (in early use) esp. by divine or supernatural means; revelation; an instance of this.

Chiefly Christian Church. Divine influence or direction; inspiration, esp. through the Holy Spirit.

The action of infusing some principle, quality, or idea, into the mind, soul, or heart; esp. the imparting of a priori ideas or of divine grace…

Lighting up, illumination, enlightenment. Obsolete. spiritual (the earliest sense) or intellectual.

gen. Any revelation from heaven.

The action of breathing into; inspiration.

The action of illuminate, v. Also attributive, as illuminating engineering n. the branch of engineering and applied science concerned with the…

A breeze or blast of air, an act of blowing; (chiefly figurative) an instance of divine or spiritual communication; an inspiration; cf. afflatus, n.…

An internal divine power; frenzy attributed to or characteristic of divine inspiration.

Inspiration or possession by a god, demon, spirit, etc.; a state of frenzy attributed to divine inspiration or demonic possession. Also: an instance…

The act of gliding, slipping, or falling in, of gently sinking into or permeating something. Theology. Said of spiritual influences, esp. in the…

The act of inspiring, or fact of being inspired; inspiration.

An inspiration; a spiritual influence. Obsolete.

An inspiration. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. A beaming forth of spiritual light.

spec. The coming in of divine influence into the soul; spiritual influx or communication. (Common in 17th cent.: now Obsolete or rare.)

The communication of supernatural or spiritual knowledge; divine impulse; inspiration, esp. poetic inspiration. Also: an instance of this. Frequently…

The state or condition of being possessed or inspired by a divine power; divine inspiration. In later use, esp. with reference to the Neoplatonic…

Breathing, respiration; the breath as the sign of life; the life principle inhabiting all animate things. In meditation: a breath, a single…

Inspiration, afflatus. rare.

divine inspiration.

A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration, afflatus.

= theopneusty n.