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verb

Illustrate v. t. (past & past part. illustrated; pres. part. illustrating)

To make clear, bright, or luminous. "Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky."

To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. "To prove him, and illustrate his high worth."

To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.

To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.

To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify. (Obs.) "Matter to me of glory, whom their hate Illustrates."

adjective

Illustrate adj. Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious. (Obs.) "This most gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman."

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Etymology of 'Illustrate'

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— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat

... the dictatorship which Young prescribed and carried out in all matters, spiritual and commercial, might be questioned if we were not able to follow the various steps taken in establishing his authority, and to illustrate its scope, by the testimony, not of men who suffered from it, but by his own words and those of his closest associates. With a blindness which seems incomprehensible, the sermons, or "discourses," delivered in ...

— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

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... a compliment so flattering. But he went back to business. "As I was saying, you can do what you want to do. You wish me to show you how. In our modern way of doing things, the relation of lawyer and client has somewhat changed. To illustrate by this case, you are the bear with the taste for honey and the strength to rob the bees. I am the honey bird—that is, the modern lawyer—who can show you the way to the hive. Most of the honey birds—as yet—are ...

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