(n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(2) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(3) Society now takes a more enlightened, community-based approach for people like my daughter.
(4) The study was aimed at the enlightenment of intracortical spreading mechanisms in focal epileptic seizures produced by local application of Acetylcholine.
(5) Surjit S Bhalla, a Delhi-based consultant and former World Bank economist, said the British decision was "enlightened".
(6) With careful and enlightened use, pesticide toxicity, to both man and the environment, could be significantly reduced.
(7) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
(8) These data provide further enlightenment regarding the mechanisms of the well-preserved functional capacity noted in these patients.
(9) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
(10) In the time of enlightenment more and more people thought, that very much cases of suicide were committed in severe illness.
(11) Possible causes have to be seen in long time of hospitalisation (average = 304 days), and apparent inadequate enlightenment of patients and in functionally and cosmetically insufficiencies.
(12) Our purpose is to enlighten the central position of competence in cognitive structures and coping systems of the patients.
(13) in 1991, French philosophy enjoyed a golden age akin to classical Greece or Enlightenment Germany.
(14) I haven't felt this enlightened since extraordinary rendition.
(15) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(16) Daud Naji, an Enlighten Movement leader, said on Sunday that they had been told only that there was a “heightened risk” of attack and had subsequently cancelled nine of 10 planned routes.
(17) Beverage price increases were regarded to be the least effective approach by nurses and clerical employees, while physicians felt that the press was the least likely source of enlightenment.
(18) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
(19) But then the dislocations and traumas caused by industralisation and urbanisation accelerated the growth of ideologies of race and blood in even enlightened western Europe.
(20) Had English rulers taken a more enlightened view of gender issues they might not have got into such a mess.
Illuminati
Definition:
(v. t.) Literally, those who are enlightened
(v. t.) Persons in the early church who had received baptism; in which ceremony a lighted taper was given them, as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament.
(v. t.) Members of a sect which sprung up in Spain about the year 1575. Their principal doctrine was, that, by means of prayer, they had attained to so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances, sacraments, good works, etc.; -- called also Alumbrados, Perfectibilists, etc.
(v. t.) Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years.
(v. t.) An obscure sect of French Familists;
(v. t.) The Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists;
(v. t.) The Rosicrucians.
(v. t.) Any persons who profess special spiritual or intellectual enlightenment.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(2) I think there are some people who don’t mind being referred to as that, but I know who the real Illuminati are, and where that word came from.
(3) Although of course the awards are actually decided by shadowy illuminati lizard people so this all means nothing.
(4) The rabbit hole goes even deeper with a whole host of outlandish theories about the death of Tupac, which mostly revolve around him being murdered by the Illuminati with Kanye West and Jay-Z (of course) masterminding the whole shady operation.
(5) At least one believer maintains that the fatidic date of 1 May links the Illuminati to the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Bin Laden, even though Hitler killed himself on 30 April 1945 and Bin Laden was killed in the early hours of 2 May 2011, Pakistan time.
(6) Jones has also linked Bin Laden to the Illuminati, albeit through the more tortuous route of the Mossad, CIA and MI6, among other agents.
(7) He's called Lee, and he's a smart bloke, keen to impress on me that he's a Guardian reader, and old enough to remember a time when the conceptual artist who has assembled him and 16 of his co-workers here today wasn't a conceptual artist: the brief but spectacular era when Bill Drummond was one half of the biggest-selling singles band in the world, the KLF, who made No 1 in 18 countries with a single on which Tammy Wynette sang about the Illuminati and ice cream vans; and the period before that when Drummond was a record company man, band manager and the subject of much music press debate about whether he was a genius or just a headcase.
(8) If it’s all an establishment conspiracy, it cannot be long before the Illuminati get a namecheck.
(9) He doesn’t publicly criticise Griff for giving paranoid lectures about the Illuminati, just like he didn’t knock Flav for becoming a clownish reality TV star.
(10) At that point most people switched off, but then even mainstream news sources started to ask; what is the secret Illuminati message?
(11) And Hova is far from the only rapper accused of having Illuminati ties.
(12) So the purpose for writing that song was really in a way, ‘So, if you think I’m the Illuminati, then thank you very much, a compliment, because I would like very much to be part of that group, the real Illuminati, and this is what it’s not’”.
(13) This is prevented by either bright field or dark field illuminatiated photographs, where the topography of the silver grains is neglected despite the high resolution obtainable by autoradiography, but may be done by taking advantage of a modification of dark field illumination thus generating an additional bright field effect.
(14) Meanwhile, Kanye West, another Tidal backer, has reassured people that the service is not part of the shadowy world-governing organisation known as the Illuminati.
(15) But the new trailer shows the two-time Oscar-winner emerging from the shadows for the first time after 007 tracks him down to an eery Vatican council of Illuminati-like figures.
(16) There’s a lot of talk in pop music right now about people saying, ‘Oh, this person’s a member of the Illuminati,’ or they’re Illuminati, or you’re Illuminati, and people’s idea that there’s a group of entertainers or very wealthy people, they’re referred to as the Illuminati, and they work behind the scenes and they control things and they’re very powerful, and there’s possibly a reference to something dark, or black magic, or something like that.
(17) Most media outlets took the card at face value and instinctively laughed heartily at it , before mocking the Kardashians and moving on, but others looked a bit deeper and started to see the HIDDEN ILLUMINATI MESSAGES.
(18) @1Anson1 : @jahimes @cspanwj Are you a illuminati or Chabad, Zionist probably?” July 23, 2014 Best behind-the-scenes: Paul Ryan (R-WI) Eat your heart out, Woody Allen .
(19) Bin Laden also owned Bloodlines of the Illuminati, by Fritz Springmeier, an Oregon man who has written extensively about the eponymous semi-historical sect, mind control, Jehovah’s witnesses and Freemasons.
(20) An internet search for Canadian cry-baby rap star Drake , for example, will throw up a treasure trove of Illuminati hip-hop conspiracy material.