Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To illustrate.

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  • adjective obsolete illustrious
  • verb obsolete To illuminate
  • verb obsolete To make illustrious

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Examples

  • As one francophone blogger, Le petit Quimonte illustre, explains:

    Global Voices in English » Gabon: Opposition Continues to Fight Election Result 2009

  • Il ataque, il est vrai, celui de vôtre illustre Compatriote, Le Chevalier Newton dont les Lumieres ont ebloui toute l'Europe mais il s'acorde à merveille avec les loix de la Nature, & il est fondé sur des Experience & incontestable j'ai donc lieu de me flatter de l'honeur de vous Suffrage & chez des Peuples vrais Judicieuse & raisonables ...

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Sciatis eum esse qui a nemine fere aevi sui magnate, non illustre stipendium habuit, ne mores ipsorum Satyris suis notaret.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Now and again, she organizes caritative gala events for the international jet-set, with such illustre guests as the princess of Monaco, to rise additional funds for her organization.

    DoJ raids p2p operators 2004

  • Cette semaine illustre parfaitement le "pk je veux un portable" (ordinateur).

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Now and again, she organizes caritative gala events for the international jet-set, with such illustre guests as the princess of Monaco, to rise additional funds for her organization.

    DoJ raids p2p operators 2004

  • Monsieur Sauve, nous sommes tres contents de vous avoir avec nous aujourd'hui, comme representant illustre de la Belle Province du Quebec.

    The Need For Unity In Canada 1966

  • Page 326, Volume 3 happiness to greatness (ne sera point illustre, mais elle sera heureuse).

    NATIONALISM HANS KOHN 1968

  • Whereof I thoughte good to giue this aduertisemente: and waying with my selfe that by the publishing hereof no dishonour can dedounde to the illustre race of our noble kinges and Princes, ne yet to the blemishinge of the fame of that noble kinge, eternized for his victories and vertues in the auncient Annales, Chronicles and Monuments, forren and domesticall,

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • FAMEUX, EUSE, renommé; célèbre; illustre; extraordinaire.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

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  • "To illustrate." --Cent. Dict.

    April 21, 2011

  • Also the opposite of lustre.

    April 22, 2011