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/ˈɪləstrˌeɪt/ Listen

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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"Illustrate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Aberdeen; his early pictures illustrate Scottish subjects, his latest and best illustrate life in Spain, whither he had gone in 1851 for ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... realize how fearfully dangerous is this habit of constantly reiterated negative suggestion. Let me illustrate by an actual incident: A beautiful girl in a near-by state grew up quietly in the little village until she was eighteen years of age, when suddenly she decided to run away from home, declaring she was old enough to do as she ...

— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... the persons of our story, to illustrate whom I must pick out a few isolated instances of heroism in ...

— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth

... Cuthbert's Church. For any kirk session is far from commonplace, let alone the session of such a church as mine. Kirk sessions are the bloom of Scottish character in particular and the crown and glory of mankind in general. Piety, sobriety, severity, these are the three outstanding graces which they illustrate supremely; but interlocked with these are many other gifts and virtues in varying ...

— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles

... refection, Knife and fork he never lays Cross-wise, to my recollection, As do I, in Jesu's praise. I the Trinity illustrate, Drinking watered orange-pulp— In three sips the Arian frustrate; While he drains his ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

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