illuminated

Related to illuminated: illuminati

illuminate

To clarify or further explain something. I think the author's scathing description of the ball gowns really illuminates his view of upper-class life. Thank you for illuminating that point for me.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

illuminated

mod. alcohol intoxicated. (A play on lit.) Paul is a bit illuminated.
See also: illuminate
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • illuminate
  • we have to do lunch sometime
  • we must do lunch sometime
  • blue blood
  • explain (oneself)
  • explain oneself
  • explain yourself
  • set (someone, something, or oneself) apart (from someone or something)
  • set apart
  • set apart from
References in periodicals archive
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Pakistan celebrates 71st Independence Day
“These are really beautiful, well-made, low-wattage LED illuminated doorbell chimes that make great 24/7 hallway lights, night-lights or wall sconces," according to Don Ladanyi, New Product Developer at Teiber Lighting.
Teiber Lighting Introduces New Designer LED Illuminated Doorbell Door Chimes
Keys Inn, End Lane, Bedworth, illuminated and non illuminated signs (M&B Ltd);
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The cool nature of LED white light prevents heating of the illuminated subject.
Ringlight for inspection microscopes
Display of one internally illuminated single sided static advertisement unit on bus shelter47 Lambeth Road, Kingstanding.
Planning Applications
They are all approximately life-size portrayals of individuals (mostly men, and including a 1661 self-portrait of the artist posing as Saint Paul), depicted at half or three-quarter length, obscurely dressed, face and prominent hands illuminated, often with an attribute.
Faithful likenesses
This is the medium for a continuous illuminated show by a succession of young artists whose work is sponsored by tyre manufacturers.
Light tread: A new urban landmark in the industrial fringe of Zurich provides a high-technology canvas for young artists and a necessary facility for drivers. (design review)
Kimber has been named the exclusive North American distributor for Meprolight illuminated shooting accessories, optics and watches.
Kimber Named Distributor For Meprolight Products
Each year since the mid-1990s, as the sun has illuminated more and more of the northern hemisphere, the clouds have appeared brightest along the northernmost, newly sunlit edge.
Cloudy puzzle on Uranus
If Brown had really illuminated the place Velaquez occupied in the court and Spain of his day, a place he occupied precisely as a painter and through the very paintings he produced, then the necessity and brilliance of what his art work brought into being and made visible, would precisely have been what was illuminated.
Velazquez: Painter and Courtier
The latest submissions to the council include: ?Display of two internally illuminated fascia signs at Unit 3, Soar at Intu Braehead, King's Inch Road, Renfrew.
Planning officers are set to be busy
KIRKLEES Council has received the following planning applications: | Bradley Bar Private Day Nursery, non illuminated signs, 371 Bradley Road, Bradley.
Planning
New York, NY, April 11, 2013 --(PR.com)-- DiaNoche Designs will be showing off their amazing Illuminated Art at: The Baby Issue Press Presentation-New York.
DiaNoche Designs to Present at the Baby Issue Press Presentation at The Roosevelt Hotel, Midtown NYC
Site 42C005, Camborne Drive, Nuneaton, retain illuminated fascia sign and illuminated projecting sign (unit 1 Horeston Grange Shopping Centre), Hanif Lakha.
School plans to expand
Display of internally illuminated fascia sign, projecting sign and 4 non illuminated fascia signs779-787 Chester Road, Erdington.
Planning Applications