(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.
Illumination
Definition:
(n.) The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
(n.) Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
(n.) Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.
(v. t.) That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.
(v. t.) The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(3) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
(4) These data show an extra-hepatic lipolytic effect of glucagon in vivo, but do not illuminate the significance of this effect in the intact animal.
(5) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
(6) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
(9) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
(12) One of these has high sporulation-inducing activity after illumination in vitro.
(13) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(14) The effects of continuous illumination, adrenalectomy and induction or inhibition of microsomal enzymes on antipyretic action of phenacetin were evaluated.
(15) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(16) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(17) superficial or interstitial illumination) and the optical interaction coefficients of the irradiated tissue.
(18) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(19) On prolonged UV-A illumination the ESR spectrum of 16-doxylstearic acid in dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles loaded with 8-methoxypsoralen changed dramatically as a second broad component gradually appeared.
(20) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.