illuminator en · NOUN
Etymology
From illuminate + -or.
Meanings
- Agent noun of illuminate: ▸ One who illuminates; an explainer.
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Agent noun of illuminate: ▸ An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscriptsᵂ.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| illuminators | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| illuminatour | alternative | lexicographic |